Admissions & selectivity
Skidmore College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Skidmore College?
Skidmore College’s reported acceptance rate is 21.0%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 21.0%
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
Admission at 21.1% sets a clear context for applicants: it is the share admitted from the reported entering-class applicant pool. That rate is below the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
Applicants should treat the reported rate as one factor when building a balanced application list.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Skidmore College students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that the middle half of enrolled first-year SAT submitters scored from 1360 to 1460, and 25% submitted SAT scores. ACT submitters fell between 31 and 34 in the middle half, with 8% submitting ACT scores.
These ranges describe enrolled score submitters rather than admission minimums. Among first-year students with a reported class rank, 45% were in the upper tenth of their high-school class and 70% were in the upper quarter.
Applicants should compare their scores with Skidmore College’s 1360 to 1460 SAT range and 31 to 34 ACT range, remembering that they describe recent enrolled submitters.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Skidmore College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
25% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 1360
- Median
- 1400
- 75th percentile
- 1460
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
8% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 31
- Median
- 33
- 75th percentile
- 34
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Skidmore College Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Skidmore College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 12.8%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 4.3%
- First-year retention
- 89.6%
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.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, Skidmore College reported 160 degree-seeking transfer applicants, 63 admitted, and 20 enrolled, offering a recent snapshot of that entry route. Federal enrollment data list 2,694 undergraduates.
Pell Grant recipients make up 12.8% of undergraduates, while an estimated 4.3% enter as transfers or part-time students. Those figures describe a campus whose undergraduate population includes grant recipients and a smaller transfer route, rather than an enrollment pattern centered on transfers.
Students who start at Skidmore College tend to stay and finish. The first-year retention rate for full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants is 89.6%, above the peer median of 83.4% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 82.6%, which also exceeds the peer median of 68.8%. Pell Grant recipients complete at a rate that surpasses the overall figure.
Their six-year completion rate is 88.0%, which is 5.4 percentage points above the rate for the entering cohort as a whole. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported a retention rate of 94% for the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class.
Enrolled students who stick around can expect a campus that keeps its commitments to them.
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.
Figure notes link to sources and limitations. About College Azimuth.