Colgate University
Colgate publishes 14% (Fall 2024 entering class). Early Decision applicants got in at 20%; everyone else at 13%.
Acceptance rate
What Colgate's 14% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Colgate reports itself.
By application round
Fall 2024 entering class (CDS 2024-2025, C1: 2,871 admits / 20,682 applications)
Read the full decomposition →Part of Real Acceptance Rates, our series decomposing published rates from each school's own Common Data Set.
Testing
Test-Optional for 2026-27
- Policy
Test-optional. Official page states applicants face 'no disadvantage' if they choose not to submit SAT/ACT scores; applications are evaluated holistically regardless of testing decision.
- SAT middle 50%
- 1430–1540sum of section 25th–75th percentiles
- ACT middle 50%
- 33–34
- Average HS GPA
- 3.85Fall 2024 (CDS 2024-25) · Source
Applying
Deadlines, essays and AI policy
- Early deadlines
- Nov 1, 2026 (ED); Jan 15, 2027 (ED2)
- Regular decision
- Jan 15, 2027Source
Full cycle calendar: Application Deadlines.
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 3,180
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $70,306
- Category
- Liberal Arts
- Admissions site
- www.colgate.edu
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Sources
- Colgate test policy (2026-27)
- Colgate deadlines
- Colgate GPA (Fall 2024 (CDS 2024-25))
- Acceptance rate, test-score percentiles, enrollment and tuition: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, pulled 2026-08-19.
Test policy and deadlines last verified 2026-08-17.
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