Mount Holyoke acceptance rate and admissions statistics
Mount Holyoke admitted 1,774 of 4,619 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 38.4%. 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 Mount Holyoke counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
Mount Holyoke acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 4,619 | 1,774 | 38.4% | 536 | 30.2% |
| 2024-25 | 5,226 | 1,883 | 36.0% | 512 | 27.2% |
| 2023-24 | 5,030 | 1,926 | 38.3% | 587 | 30.5% |
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 Mount Holyoke
Mount Holyoke waitlist
Mount Holyoke SAT and ACT scores
What Mount Holyoke 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 Mount Holyoke rated in the top two tiers.
- 2025-26
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Application essay, Recommendations
- Important: Class rank, Interview, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities, Volunteer work, Work experience
- 2024-25
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Application essay, Recommendations
- Important: Class rank, Interview, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities, Volunteer work, Work experience
- 2023-24
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Recommendations, Application essay
- Important: Class rank, Interview, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities, Volunteer work, Work experience
Mount Holyoke testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
Test-optional: applicants choose whether to submit SAT or ACT scores. SAT or ACT scores are required for home-schooled applicants who studied only through self-study or online curricula.
From Mount Holyoke’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
In 2025-26 and 2024-25, C9 covers only students who asked for their scores to be considered. The 2025-26 enrolled total of 536 includes 8 citizens abroad.
Mount Holyoke acceptance rate questions
- What is the Mount Holyoke acceptance rate?
- Mount Holyoke's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 4,619 first-year applicants and 1,774 admitted, an acceptance rate of 38.4%. It was 36.0% in 2024-25 and 38.3% in 2023-24.
- What is the Mount Holyoke early decision acceptance rate?
- In 2025-26, 208 of 411 early decision applicants were admitted (50.6%), against 38.4% 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 Mount Holyoke students have?
- In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1365 to 1485, and ACT submitters scored 30 to 32. 15.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
- How many students get off the Mount Holyoke waitlist?
- In 2025-26, Mount Holyoke offered 474 applicants a place on the waitlist; 196 accepted one, and 9 were admitted from it.
- Does Mount Holyoke require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- Test-optional: applicants choose whether to submit SAT or ACT scores. SAT or ACT scores are required for home-schooled applicants who studied only through self-study or online curricula.
Applying to Mount Holyoke?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what Mount Holyoke says it weighs.
Source: Mount Holyoke Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with Mount Holyoke. All official acceptance rates