The College of Wooster admits roughly 60 of every 100 applicants in the most recent CDS reporting cycle.
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 | 59.5% | 372 | 74.0% | 82.0% | 1,350 |
| 2023-2024 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2019-2020 | — | — | 77.0% | 86.0% | — |
| 2018-2019 | — | — | 74.0% | 87.0% | — |
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.
Cross-admit cohort spans an unusually wide selectivity range.
The schools The College of Wooster applicants most commonly also apply to range from 19.6% admit to 97.5% admit — a 77.9 pp band. A reasonable read: applicants choose by region or program fit rather than selectivity tier alone.
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 18 percentage points.
The College of Wooster's 74.0% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 17.7 pp.
Cross-admits concentrated in the home region.
5 of 7 cross-admit schools are in OH — The College of Wooster 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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