Admissions & selectivity
Haverford College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Haverford College?
Haverford College’s reported acceptance rate is 12.4%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 12.4%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
Source: Haverford College Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Haverford College admits 12.4% of applicants, a figure far below the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 6,730 first-year applicants and 896 admitted students, with 397 enrolling.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Haverford College students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that among enrolled first-year students who submitted SAT scores, the middle half scored between 1460 and 1530. 40% of enrolled first-year students submitted SAT scores.
For ACT submitters, the middle half of scores ranged from 33 to 35, with 14% of enrolled first-year students submitting ACT scores. These ranges describe enrolled first-year students who submitted scores, not minimums for admission.
Among enrolled first-year students with a reported class rank, 93% placed in the highest tenth of their high-school class and 100% in the highest quarter. Applicants can use Haverford's own SAT range of 1460 to 1530 as context for recent score submitters, rather than as a cutoff. Its ACT range of 33 to 35 offers the same context.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Haverford College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
40% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 1460
- Median
- 1490
- 75th percentile
- 1530
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
14% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 33
- Median
- 34
- 75th percentile
- 35
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Haverford College Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Haverford College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 15.4%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 1.8%
- First-year retention
- 93.8%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
Haverford College enrolls 1,430 undergraduates, with 15.4% receiving Pell Grants and an estimated 1.8% entering as transfers or part-time students. The campus is overwhelmingly composed of students who began as first-year entrants.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 6,730 first-year applicants, 896 admitted, and 397 enrolled. For transfer students, the same data set shows 189 applicants, 30 admitted, and 11 enrolled.
A Pell-eligible applicant should use the cost calculator to see a grant-adjusted price, and a transfer applicant should review the transfer information alongside their intended field.
Retention and completion at Haverford College run well above the peer medians. 93.8% of full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants return for a second year, compared with a median of 74.2% for comparable institutions.
The six-year graduation rate is 89.6%, against a peer median of 54.9%. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported a retention rate of 93% for the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class.
Enrolled students can expect strong persistence and a high likelihood of finishing within six years.
Data & methodology
Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
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