Vassar College
Vassar publishes 21% (Fall 2025). Out-of-state applicants got in at 29%; international at 5.0%.
Acceptance rate
What Vassar's 21% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Vassar 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
Vassar's admissions site states plainly: 'Vassar does not require SAT or ACT scores.' No expiration date, pilot framing, or future-change language was found in the pages reviewed.
- 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 1, 2027 (ED2)
- Regular decision
- Jan 1, 2027Source
Full cycle calendar: Application Deadlines.
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 2,444
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $71,030
- Category
- Liberal Arts
- Admissions site
- www.vassar.edu
What should this school mean for your list?
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Sources
- Vassar test policy (2026-27)
- Vassar 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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