Admissions & selectivity
Hope College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Hope College?
Hope College’s reported acceptance rate is 79.2%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 79.2%
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.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Hope College admitted 79.2% of applicants in the reported entering class, which describes the share receiving admission decisions in that applicant pool. That rate is above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Hope College students report?
At Hope College, submitted test scores offer a reference point for judging academic fit rather than a threshold for admission. Applicants can place an SAT score beside the 1,100 to 1,340 range for enrolled students who submitted that test; it covers the middle fifty percent of submitted SAT scores.
Applicants can make the same comparison with the ACT range of 25 to 31 among enrolled students who submitted ACT scores. These ranges run from the twenty-fifth to the seventy-fifth percentile, so they describe the score patterns of enrolled submitters rather than minimum scores.
Reading each range alongside the rest of an application keeps the figures in their proper context.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Hope College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1100
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1340
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff. The endpoints add section percentiles; they are not verified composite-score percentiles. A separate SAT-equivalent average is not plotted as a median. Source: College Scorecard; sum of section 25th/75th percentiles; enrolled score-submitters.
- 25th percentile
- 25
- 75th percentile
- 31
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Hope College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 16.5%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 5.6%
- First-year retention
- 88.4%
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.
Hope College enrolls 3,288 undergraduates, including 16.5% who receive Pell Grants; this describes a campus with a defined federal-grant presence among its undergraduate body. The estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 5.6%, placing transfer entry alongside a larger undergraduate population that began through other routes.
Pell eligibility identifies receipt of a federal grant, rather than every kind of financial need. Applicants who are Pell-eligible or plan to transfer should compare their own aid options and ask admissions how previous coursework is reviewed. These measures describe financial access and entry route separately.
Hope College shows overall retention and completion above the peer benchmarks for comparable institutions, giving enrolled students a clear picture of persistence in the first-time full-time cohort. Its six-year graduation rate is 80.0%, above the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of 68.8%.
First-year retention is 88.4%, also above the peer median of 83.4%. Pell recipients have a six-year completion rate of 70.2%, below the overall rate by 9.8 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect overall persistence figures that exceed the comparable-institution benchmarks, alongside lower completion for Pell recipients.
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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