Colgate University's admit rate has fallen 13.5 percentage points across the 10 reported years on file.
The headline numbers, drawn from CDS sections A–H.
Per-cycle Common Data Set values. Enrolled is first-year matriculants (CDS B1), not total undergraduate population. Blank cells mean the field was not published in that year's source CDS.
| Year | Admit rate | Enrolled | 6-yr grad | Retention | SAT (50th) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-2025 | 13.9% | 825 | 91.2% | 93.4% | 1,490 |
| 2023-2024 | 11.9% | 807 | 90.5% | 93.0% | 1,480 |
| 2022-2023 | 12.4% | 812 | 91.2% | 94.5% | 1,470 |
| 2021-2022 | 17.2% | 887 | 90.3% | 92.8% | — |
| 2020-2021 | 27.5% | 765 | 90.9% | 93.5% | — |
Cross-admits and statistical look-alikes, surfaced from the CollegeNumbers peer model.
Comparative observations derived from this school's reported CDS values and from IPEDS / College Scorecard reference data. Every claim is grounded in a number — no editorial overlay.
Highly selective — top tier of CDS Atlas schools.
Colgate University's 13.9% admit rate places it among 50 of 334 covered schools admitting below 15% (~15.0% of the index).
Admit rate has tightened 13.6 percentage points over 5 reporting cycles.
Colgate University's admit rate fell from 27.5% (2020-2021) to 13.9% (2024-2025) — a 13.6 pp drop. Year-over-year: 27.5 → 17.2 → 12.4 → 11.9 → 13.9. A snapshot of the current year alone would hide this structural shift.
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 35 percentage points.
Colgate University's 91.2% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 34.9 pp.
Cross-admit cohort spans an unusually wide selectivity range.
The schools Colgate University applicants most commonly also apply to range from 6.0% admit to 32.2% admit — a 26.2 pp band. A reasonable read: applicants choose by region or program fit rather than selectivity tier alone.
Sources: each school's officially-published Common Data Set; IPEDS / College Scorecard for federal comparisons. Methodology →
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