Harvey Mudd College
Harvey Mudd publishes 12% (Fall 2025). Out-of-state applicants got in at 18%; international at 5.3%.
Acceptance rate
What Harvey Mudd's 12% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Harvey Mudd reports itself.
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
Harvey Mudd's site describes its ACT/SAT-optional pilot as extended 'through 2026' and has not been explicitly updated for the 2026-27 cycle — confirm directly with HMC before relying on this.
- SAT middle 50%
- 1500–1570sum of section 25th–75th percentiles
- ACT middle 50%
- 34–36
- Average HS GPA
- Not published by the school
Applying
Deadlines, essays and AI policy
- Early deadlines
- Nov 15, 2026 (ED); Jan 5, 2027 (ED2)
- Regular decision
- Jan 5, 2027Source
Full cycle calendar: Application Deadlines.
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 921
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $68,613
- Category
- Liberal Arts
- Admissions site
- www.hmc.edu
What should this school mean for your list?
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Sources
- Harvey Mudd test policy (2026-27)
- 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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