Davidson College
Davidson publishes 13% (Fall 2025). Out-of-state applicants got in at 20%; international at 2.4%.
Acceptance rate
What Davidson's 13% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Davidson reports itself.
Transfer
Fall 2025 transfer entrants (CDS Section D2) · as of August 2026 · 1.46× easier than first-year
Read the transfer analysis →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
CDS 2025-26 (Section C8A, policy 'for Fall 2027') marks SAT/ACT as 'Not required for admission, but consider if submitted.' No future change announced.
- SAT middle 50%
- 1400–1530sum of section 25th–75th percentiles
- ACT middle 50%
- 31–34
- Average HS GPA
- 3.85Fall 2025 (CDS 2025-26) · Source
Applying
Deadlines, essays and AI policy
- Early deadlines
- Nov 15, 2026 (ED); Jan 5, 2027 (ED2)
- Regular decision
- Jan 10, 2027Source
- AI use in essays
No Official Policy
We searched Davidson's admission hub, apply pages, and first-year applicant pages for AI, ChatGPT, and generative-AI language — nothing published.
Full cycle calendar: Application Deadlines.
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 1,867
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $64,410
- Category
- Liberal Arts
- Admissions site
- davidson.edu
Dewey Smart
Dewey students who got into Davidson
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Sources
- Davidson test policy (2026-27)
- Davidson GPA (Fall 2025 (CDS 2025-26))
- Davidson admissions pages
- Davidson 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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