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# Vassar College Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## 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.

First-year applicants and admitted students · CDS 2024-25

**Applicants**
12,430

**Admitted**
2,307

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**

SAT: reported composite 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**

ACT: reported composite 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](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) 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](/methodology/).

Analysis and methodology by [Daniel Rogers](/about/#founder), 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](/about/).