Oberlin College

Acceptance rate

What Oberlin's 33% is made of

The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Oberlin 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

Test-optional since 2020 for the College of Arts & Sciences (Oberlin's primary undergraduate admissions track); the official policy page presents this as an ongoing policy with no stated end date, not a time-limited pilot. Note: Oberlin's Conservatory of Music undergraduate admissions has separate, sometimes differently-timed testing language and is not covered by this record.

Source (high confidence)All 100 schools

SAT middle 50%

1360–1520sum of section 25th–75th percentiles

ACT middle 50%

31–34

Average HS GPA

3.6Fall 2025 enrolled first-year students (CDS 2025-2026) · Source

Applying

Deadlines, essays and AI policy

Early deadlines

Nov 1, 2026 (ED); Jan 5, 2027 (ED2)

Regular decision

Jan 15, 2027Source

Full cycle calendar: Application Deadlines.

At a glance

Size and cost

Undergraduate enrollment

2,887

Tuition (out-of-state)

$67,366

Category

Liberal Arts

Admissions site

www.oberlin.edu

Sources

• Oberlin test policy (2026-27)
• Oberlin deadlines
• Oberlin GPA (Fall 2025 enrolled first-year students (CDS 2025-2026))
• 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.