Tufts acceptance rate and admissions statistics
Tufts admitted 3,613 of 33,415 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 10.8%. 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 Tufts counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
Tufts acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 33,415 | 3,613 | 10.8% | 1,765 | 48.9% |
| 2024-25 | 34,432 | 3,957 | 11.5% | 1,801 | 45.5% |
| 2023-24 | 34,003 | 3,444 | 10.1% | 1,739 | 50.5% |
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 Tufts
Tufts waitlist
Tufts SAT and ACT scores
What Tufts 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 Tufts rated in the top two tiers.
- 2025-26
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Application essay, Recommendations, Character/personal qualities
- Important: Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability
- 2024-25
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Application essay, Recommendations, Character/personal qualities
- Important: Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability
- 2023-24
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Recommendations, Application essay, Character/personal qualities
- Important: Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability
Tufts testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
Test-optional for all undergraduate applicants; first-year and transfer applicants choose whether to submit SAT or ACT scores.
From Tufts’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
The 2024-25 and 2023-24 C21 print early decision dates but no counts. 2025-26 totals are the residency table totals; 2024-25 totals are the sums of the gender rows.
Tufts acceptance rate questions
- What is the Tufts acceptance rate?
- Tufts's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 33,415 first-year applicants and 3,613 admitted, an acceptance rate of 10.8%. It was 11.5% in 2024-25 and 10.1% in 2023-24.
- What is the Tufts early decision acceptance rate?
- In 2025-26, 1,071 of 3,344 early decision applicants were admitted (32.0%), against 10.8% 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 Tufts students have?
- In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1460 to 1520, and ACT submitters scored 33 to 35. 42.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
- How many students get off the Tufts waitlist?
- In 2025-26, Tufts offered 3,061 applicants a place on the waitlist; 1,193 accepted one, and 71 were admitted from it.
- Does Tufts require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- Test-optional for all undergraduate applicants; first-year and transfer applicants choose whether to submit SAT or ACT scores.
Applying to Tufts?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what Tufts says it weighs.
Source: Tufts Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with Tufts. All official acceptance rates