Wesleyan acceptance rate and admissions statistics
Wesleyan admitted 2,451 of 14,973 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 16.4%. 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 Wesleyan counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
Wesleyan acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 14,973 | 2,451 | 16.4% | 825 | 33.7% |
| 2024-25 | 14,389 | 2,373 | 16.5% | 825 | 34.8% |
| 2023-24 | 14,500 | 2,479 | 17.1% | 782 | 31.5% |
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 Wesleyan
Wesleyan waitlist
Wesleyan SAT and ACT scores
What Wesleyan 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 Wesleyan rated in the top two tiers.
- 2025-26
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record
- Important: Class rank, Academic GPA, Application essay, Recommendations, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities, First generation
- 2024-25
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record
- Important: Class rank, Academic GPA, Application essay, Recommendations, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities, First generation
- 2023-24
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record
- Important: Class rank, Academic GPA, Recommendations, Application essay, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities, First generation
Wesleyan testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
Test-optional. Wesleyan does not require most students to submit SAT or ACT scores, and applicants decide for themselves whether to send them. Homeschooled applicants have a separate testing policy and are asked for SAT or ACT scores from the last twelve months.
From Wesleyan’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
The share submitting an SAT is printed as a decimal and shown as a percent.
Wesleyan acceptance rate questions
- What is the Wesleyan acceptance rate?
- Wesleyan's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 14,973 first-year applicants and 2,451 admitted, an acceptance rate of 16.4%. It was 16.5% in 2024-25 and 17.1% in 2023-24.
- What is the Wesleyan early decision acceptance rate?
- In 2025-26, 522 of 1,220 early decision applicants were admitted (42.8%), against 16.4% 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 Wesleyan students have?
- In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1350 to 1510, and ACT submitters scored 32 to 35. 43.5% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
- How many students get off the Wesleyan waitlist?
- In 2025-26, Wesleyan offered 2,224 applicants a place on the waitlist; 1,246 accepted one, and 54 were admitted from it.
- Does Wesleyan require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- Test-optional. Wesleyan does not require most students to submit SAT or ACT scores, and applicants decide for themselves whether to send them. Homeschooled applicants have a separate testing policy and are asked for SAT or ACT scores from the last twelve months.
Applying to Wesleyan?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what Wesleyan says it weighs.
Source: Wesleyan Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with Wesleyan. All official acceptance rates