Wesleyan University
Wesleyan publishes 16% (Fall 2024). Early Decision applicants got in at 39%; everyone else at 14%.
Acceptance rate
What Wesleyan's 16% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Wesleyan reports itself.
By application round
Fall 2024 (Class of 2028)
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
Official first-year admission page states Wesleyan 'does not require most students to submit SAT or ACT scores' and lets applicants decide 'whether their scores reflect their ability and if they would like their test scores to be weighed alongside their day-to-day work in secondary school.' No expiration date or 'temporary' framing was found, and no future change was announced. Wesleyan's own wording is that 'most students' are not required to submit — an unspecified exception group exists.
- SAT middle 50%
- 1415–1540sum 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
- 3,067
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $70,342
- Category
- Liberal Arts
- Admissions site
- www.wesleyan.edu
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Sources
- Wesleyan 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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