Williams College's admit rate has held within a 6.9-point band over 7 reported cycles.
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 | 8.2% | 547 | 93.6% | 96.9% | 1,535 |
| 2023-2024 | 10.0% | 541 | 97.0% | 97.0% | — |
| 2022-2023 | 8.5% | 558 | 95.0% | 97.2% | 1,520 |
| 2021-2022 | 8.8% | 574 | 94.0% | 97.0% | — |
| 2020-2021 | 15.1% | 482 | 96.0% | 90.0% | — |
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.
Highly selective — top tier of CDS Atlas schools.
Williams College's 8.2% admit rate places it among 50 of 334 covered schools admitting below 15% (~15.0% of the index).
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 37 percentage points.
Williams College's 93.6% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 37.3 pp.
Admit rate has tightened 6.9 percentage points over 5 reporting cycles.
Williams College's admit rate fell from 15.1% (2020-2021) to 8.2% (2024-2025) — a 6.9 pp drop. Year-over-year: 15.1 → 8.8 → 8.5 → 10.0 → 8.2. A snapshot of the current year alone would hide this structural shift.
First-year retention is among the highest in the index.
Williams College's 96.9% first-year retention exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 76.8% by 20.2 pp — a strong signal of student-institution fit at intake.
Sources: each school's officially-published Common Data Set; IPEDS / College Scorecard for federal comparisons. Methodology →
Compare every CDS field — admissions, aid, outcomes — side by side.
Open in CollegeNumbers compareThe Common Data Set is a standardized reporting form U.S. colleges file annually — sections A through J covering admissions selectivity, enrollment, aid, faculty resources, and outcomes. CollegeNumbers extracts every value directly from each school's officially published CDS PDF, xlsx, docx, or HTML, then normalizes into a unified schema.
Federal data layers — College Scorecard, EADA athletics, Clery campus safety, FSA financial responsibility — are joined on top. Every value traces back to its primary source. All covered schools →