Tufts University
Tufts publishes 11% (Fall 2025 entering class). Early Decision applicants got in at 32%; everyone else at 9.3%.
Acceptance rate
What Tufts's 11% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Tufts reports itself.
By application round
Fall 2025 entering class (Class of 2029)
Read the full decomposition →Early Decision advantage
32% of 3,344 ED applicants were admitted (1,071), against 9.3% for everyone else.
Fall 2024 entering class · as of August 2026
See where Tufts ranks →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
Tufts is SAT/ACT optional for undergraduate applicants — confirmed directly on admissions.tufts.edu. Roughly half of Class of 2029 applicants chose to submit scores.
- SAT middle 50%
- 1470–1560sum 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
- 2 required
Two required short-answer prompts: one on engagement with Tufts during the college search (75-150 words), and one program/school-specific prompt (100-200 words). The live page displayed 'Class of 2031' prompts, i.e. the current 2026-27 cycle, confirming currency of this data.
- AI use in essays
Guidance Only — applies to College admissions essays and short answer questions
“An important note: Tufts Admissions strongly discourages the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for writing college admissions essays and short answer responses. ... generative AI often produces formulaic responses that are less creative, distinctive, and persuasive than an applicant's own writing. ... [the committee expects] an applicant's original ideas presented in their own words.”
Full cycle calendar: Application Deadlines.
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 7,061
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $70,704
- Category
- Elite Private
- Admissions site
- www.tufts.edu
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Sources
- Tufts test policy (2026-27)
- Tufts deadlines
- Tufts AI-use policy
- Tufts admissions pages
- Tufts 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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