Dartmouth College
Dartmouth publishes 6.0% (Fall 2025). Early Decision applicants got in at 22%; everyone else at 3.8%.
Acceptance rate
What Dartmouth's 6.0% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Dartmouth reports itself.
By application round
Fall 2025 (Class of 2029)
Read the full decomposition →Early Decision advantage
22% of 3,552 ED applicants were admitted (768), against 3.8% for everyone else.
Fall 2025 (Class of 2029) · as of August 2026
See where Dartmouth ranks →Part of Real Acceptance Rates, our series decomposing published rates from each school's own Common Data Set.
Testing
Required for 2026-27
- Policy
Dartmouth reactivated required SAT/ACT testing starting with the Class of 2029 cycle (announced Feb 2024) and continues to require it for 2026-27. US high school students must submit SAT or ACT (superscored automatically); international students have 5 alternative options (SAT/ACT, 3 AP exams, IB diploma results, British A-Levels, or other national exams).
- SAT middle 50%
- 1500–1570sum of section 25th–75th percentiles
- ACT middle 50%
- 33–35
- Average HS GPA
- Not published by the school
Applying
Deadlines, essays and AI policy
- Early deadlines
- Nov 1, 2026 (ED)
- Regular decision
- Jan 1, 2027Source
- Supplemental essays
- 3 required
3 required essays: 1 'Why Dartmouth' response (≤100 words, referencing the Class of 2031 for the current cycle), plus a choice of 1-of-2 prompts (≤250 words) and 1-of-6 prompts (≤250 words).
- AI use in essays
Guidance Only — applies to College application essays (discussed generally, not specific to Dartmouth-only requirements)
“You can use AI maybe as a thinking partner or a brainstorming tool, but not as the author of your essays... With AI, the way it writes, it just writes in a way that just doesn't sound like a teenager. We want them to have that zip that a teenager has.”
Full cycle calendar: Application Deadlines.
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 4,541
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $68,268
- Category
- Ivy League
- Admissions site
- dartmouth.edu
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Sources
- Dartmouth test policy (2026-27)
- Dartmouth deadlines
- Dartmouth AI-use policy
- Dartmouth admissions pages
- Dartmouth admissions pages
- 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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