What is the Middlebury acceptance rate?

Middlebury's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 11,831 first-year applicants and 1,511 admitted, an acceptance rate of 12.8%. It was 10.7% in 2024-25 and 10.4% in 2023-24.

What is the Middlebury early decision acceptance rate?

In 2025-26, 460 of 1,179 early decision applicants were admitted (39.0%), against 12.8% of all applicants. Early decision applicants are a different pool who commit to enroll, so the two rates are not a like-for-like comparison.

What SAT scores do Middlebury students have?

In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1460 to 1530, and ACT submitters scored 33 to 35. 33.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.

How many students get off the Middlebury waitlist?

In 2025-26, Middlebury offered 1,996 applicants a place on the waitlist; 1,878 accepted one, and 109 were admitted from it.

Official acceptance rates

Middlebury acceptance rate and admissions statistics

Middlebury admitted 1,511 of 11,831 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 12.8%. Every number below comes from the college’s own Common Data Set, each year linked to its document; a figure the college leaves blank says “Not published”, and the notes at the foot of the page say where a total is the sum of rows the college printed.

What did admitted applicants have? How to get into Middlebury counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.

Middlebury acceptance rate by year

Common Data Set section C1, first-year applicants
CDS year	Applied	Admitted	Acceptance rate	Enrolled	Yield
2025-26	11,831	1,511	12.8%	634	42.0%
2024-25	12,540	1,348	10.7%	598	44.4%
2023-24	13,297	1,379	10.4%	615	44.6%

Acceptance rate is admitted divided by applied; yield is enrolled divided by admitted. Both are computed by Aristo Scholars from the two counts printed beside them.

Early decision at Middlebury

Common Data Set section C21
CDS year	ED applicants	ED admitted	ED admit rate	Overall rate
2025-26	1,179	460	39.0%	12.8%
2024-25	1,341	409	30.5%	10.7%
2023-24	1,258	428	34.0%	10.4%

Middlebury waitlist

Common Data Set section C2
CDS year	Offered a place	Accepted a place	Admitted from it	Admitted, of those who accepted
2025-26	1,996	1,878	109	5.8%
2024-25	2,285	2,256	45	2.0%
2023-24	2,778	2,734	36	1.3%

Middlebury SAT and ACT scores

Common Data Set section C9, enrolled first-year students who submitted scores
CDS year	SAT 25th to 75th	ACT 25th to 75th	Submitted an SAT
2025-26	1460 to 1530	33 to 35	33.0%
2024-25	1450 to 1530	33 to 35	28.0%
2023-24	1440 to 1530	33 to 34	28.0%

What Middlebury says matters in admission

In section C7 each college rates its own admission factors as Very Important, Important, Considered or Not Considered. These are the factors Middlebury rated in the top two tiers.

2025-26: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities; Important: Standardized test scores, Application essay, Recommendations
2024-25: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities; Important: Standardized test scores, Application essay, Recommendations
2023-24: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities; Important: Recommendations, Standardized test scores, Application essay

Middlebury testing policy for students applying in 2026-27

Test-optional. Standardized test scores are not required. Applicants who feel their scores reflect their potential may submit them, and they are then considered in review.

From Middlebury’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.

How these numbers were read

The 2025-26 document (the Fall 2025 entering class) is listed by Middlebury under 2025-26, though its page headers carry the 2024-25 label. Middlebury notes that its admitted, enrolled and waitlist counts cover September entrants only and exclude February admits.

Middlebury acceptance rate questions

What is the Middlebury acceptance rate?: Middlebury's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 11,831 first-year applicants and 1,511 admitted, an acceptance rate of 12.8%. It was 10.7% in 2024-25 and 10.4% in 2023-24.
What is the Middlebury early decision acceptance rate?: In 2025-26, 460 of 1,179 early decision applicants were admitted (39.0%), against 12.8% of all applicants. Early decision applicants are a different pool who commit to enroll, so the two rates are not a like-for-like comparison.
What SAT scores do Middlebury students have?: In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1460 to 1530, and ACT submitters scored 33 to 35. 33.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
How many students get off the Middlebury waitlist?: In 2025-26, Middlebury offered 1,996 applicants a place on the waitlist; 1,878 accepted one, and 109 were admitted from it.
Does Middlebury require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?: Test-optional. Standardized test scores are not required. Applicants who feel their scores reflect their potential may submit them, and they are then considered in review.

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Source: Middlebury Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with Middlebury. All official acceptance rates