Admissions & selectivity
Lafayette College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Lafayette College?
Lafayette College’s reported acceptance rate is 31.5%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 31.5%
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: Lafayette College Common Data Set 2024-25, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Lafayette College admits 31.4% of applicants, a rate that sits well below the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 10,193 applicants and 3,206 admitted students.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Lafayette College students report?
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported an average high-school GPA of 3.55 among enrolled first-year students who reported a GPA. Among those with a reported class rank, 51% finished in the highest tenth of their high-school class and 77% in the highest quarter.
For the 23% of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle half fell between 1370 and 1490. The 10% who submitted ACT scores had a middle-half range of 31 to 33.
The score ranges describe enrolled students who submitted scores, not every enrolled student.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Lafayette College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
23% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 1370
- Median
- 1420
- 75th percentile
- 1490
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
10% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 31
- Median
- 31
- 75th percentile
- 33
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Lafayette College Common Data Set 2024-25, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Lafayette College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 11.7%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 2.8%
- First-year retention
- 89.7%
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.
Lafayette College is a private nonprofit university in Easton, Pennsylvania, enrolling 2,757 undergraduates. The student body is shaped by a selective first-year admission process, with 11.7% of undergraduates receiving Pell Grants and an estimated 2.8% arriving as transfers or part-time students.
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 10,193 first-year applicants and 3,206 admitted students. For transfer applicants, the same edition shows 189 applicants, 40 admitted, and 20 enrolled.
Lafayette College posts persistence and completion rates that exceed the medians for comparable institutions. 89.7% of full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants return for a second year, against a peer median of 83.4%.
The six-year graduation rate is 87.6%, above the peer median of 68.8%. Pell recipients in the same first-time full-time cohort complete at 88.1%, 0.5 percentage points above the overall six-year rate.
Enrolled students can expect persistence and completion rates that exceed what is typical for institutions of this type and size.
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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