St Olaf College's admit rate has fallen 6.5 percentage points across the 6 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-2026 | 43.4% | 794 | 83.2% | 93.6% | 1,380 |
| 2024-2025 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023-2024 | 52.1% | 825 | 83.5% | 90.5% | — |
| 2022-2023 | 56.6% | 853 | 84.8% | 90.1% | 1,370 |
| 2021-2022 | — | — | 85.0% | 90.7% | — |
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.
Admit rate has tightened 13.2 percentage points over 3 reporting cycles.
St Olaf College's admit rate fell from 56.6% (2022-2023) to 43.4% (2025-2026) — a 13.2 pp drop. Year-over-year: 56.6 → 52.1 → 43.4. A snapshot of the current year alone would hide this structural shift.
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 27 percentage points.
St Olaf College's 83.2% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 26.9 pp.
Cross-admit cohort spans an unusually wide selectivity range.
The schools St Olaf College applicants most commonly also apply to range from 14.5% admit to 63.9% admit — a 49.4 pp band. A reasonable read: applicants choose by region or program fit rather than selectivity tier alone.
Cross-admits concentrated in the home region.
3 of 5 cross-admit schools are in MN — St Olaf College draws applicants weighing it against in-state and adjacent-state alternatives, not coastal or selective national peers.
Sources: each school's officially-published Common Data Set; IPEDS / College Scorecard for federal comparisons. Methodology →
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