Admissions & selectivity
Vassar College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Vassar College?
Vassar College’s reported acceptance rate is 18.6%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 18.6%
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: Vassar College Common Data Set 2024-25, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Vassar College admitted 18.6% of applicants in the federal measure, a rate that describes the outcome for a reported applicant pool rather than an individual decision. That rate is below the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 12,430 first-year applicants, 2,307 admitted applicants, and 662 enrolled students.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Vassar College students report?
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, Vassar College reported that the middle half of enrolled first-year SAT submitters scored from 1460 to 1520; 31% submitted SAT scores. These are ranges for submitted scores, not admission minimums.
For ACT submitters, the middle half scored from 33 to 35, and 12% of enrolled first-year students submitted ACT scores. Among first-year students with a reported class rank, 79% ranked in the upper tenth and 96% in the upper quarter; 29% of the entering class reported a rank.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Vassar College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
31% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 1460
- Median
- 1490
- 75th percentile
- 1520
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
12% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 33
- Median
- 33
- 75th percentile
- 35
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Vassar College Common Data Set 2024-25, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Vassar College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 19.2%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 1.2%
- First-year retention
- 94.9%
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 2024-25 Common Data Set, Vassar College reported 372 degree-seeking transfer applicants, 38 admitted, and 8 enrolled, indicating that transfer entry is a limited route within the undergraduate population. Pell Grant recipients make up 19.2% of undergraduates, and the estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 1.2%.
Undergraduate enrollment totals 2,444, so the student body includes a defined share using Pell Grants alongside a small estimated transfer presence.
Vassar College posts persistence and completion rates that run ahead of comparable institutions, giving enrolled students a favorable picture of staying through a degree. For full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year entrants, the retention rate is 94.9%, 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 91.1%, also above the comparable-institution median of 68.8%. Enrolled students can expect published first-year continuation and six-year completion patterns that exceed the corresponding peer medians.
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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