Middlebury College
Middlebury publishes 13% (Fall 2025 entering class). Early Decision applicants got in at 39%; everyone else at 9.9%.
Acceptance rate
What Middlebury's 13% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Middlebury reports itself.
By application round
Fall 2025 entering class (first-time, first-year degree-seeking applicants; CDS Section C1)
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
Middlebury is test-optional; confirmed directly on middlebury.edu ('Middlebury is test optional'). Submitting scores is entirely voluntary.
- SAT middle 50%
- 1445–1550sum 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 2, 2026 (ED I); Jan 4, 2027 (ED II)
- Regular decision
- Jan 4, 2027Source
- Supplemental essays
- None beyond the personal statement
Middlebury does NOT require a supplemental essay beyond the Common App/Coalition/QuestBridge personal statement — directly confirmed on middlebury.edu: 'We do not require a supplemental essay.'
- AI use in essays
No Official Policy
We reviewed Middlebury's admissions homepage, reports-and-policies page, application instructions, and admissions blog — no AI guidance published.
Full cycle calendar: Application Deadlines.
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 2,738
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $67,600
- Category
- Liberal Arts
- Admissions site
- www.middlebury.edu/college
What should this school mean for your list?
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Sources
- Middlebury test policy (2026-27)
- Middlebury admissions pages
- Middlebury 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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