Hamilton College
Hamilton publishes 14% (Fall 2025 entering class). Early Decision applicants got in at 28%; everyone else at 12%.
Acceptance rate
What Hamilton's 14% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Hamilton reports itself.
By application round
Fall 2025 entering class (Class of 2029)
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. Hamilton states it 'does not require the SAT or ACT' and gives full consideration regardless of submission; roughly half of enrolled students choose to submit scores. Self-reported scores allowed at application; official scores required by enrollment if submitted. Superscoring accepted for both SAT and ACT.
- SAT middle 50%
- 1450–1550sum 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 15, 2026 (ED); Jan 4, 2027 (ED2)
- Regular decision
- Jan 4, 2027Source
Full cycle calendar: Application Deadlines.
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 2,030
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $68,960
- Category
- Liberal Arts
- Admissions site
- www.hamilton.edu
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Sources
- Hamilton test policy (2026-27)
- Hamilton deadlines
- 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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