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Matriculating Class 2031  ·  Bulletin No. 04  ·  October 2026

Early Decision  ·  Dartmouth  ·  2025-26 Common Data Set

Should you apply Early Decision to Dartmouth?

Dartmouth admitted 21.6% of its Early Decision applicants, against 3.8% of everyone else who applied. Those are its own figures, for students who applied to enter in fall 2025.

21.6%Early Decision admit rate
3.8%Everyone else
6.0%All applicants
768ED admits
3,552ED applications

Admit rates computed from Dartmouth's own counts in its 2025-26 Common Data Set (sections C1 and C21), for applicants who entered in fall 2025. Everyone else is all admits minus ED admits, over all applications minus ED applications. ED applicants deferred and later admitted stay in the admits, so that figure runs slightly high and the gap slightly small. Schools also differ in whether ED II is counted in their ED figures.

What the gap means

The Early Decision pool is not a random slice of applicants. Recruited athletes, for example, are commonly asked to apply early. No school publishes the gap with them taken out, so the gap is not the effect of applying Early Decision by itself.

Test scores of enrolled students

Test25th50th75th
SAT composite144015201550
ACT composite323435

Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted scores (section C9). 69% submitted the SAT, 33% the ACT.

Dates

  1. Early Decision deadline

As Dartmouth filed them in its 2025-26 Common Data Set. This cycle's dates can move; the school's admissions office has the final word.

This cycle

No Dartmouth results have been reported yet for the Class of 2031. Decisions land in mid-December.

Anonymous reports from applicants, counted as they come in. Share of what was reported, never an admit rate.

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Source Dartmouth, 2025-26 Common Data Set, read 2026-10-27. Counts are printed in the school's own filing; rates are computed from them. Nothing here is estimated. File SHA-256 bee40012342c4241.

Other Early Decision schools

Barnardn/pBoston College33.4%Boston University31.3%Carnegie Mellon20.6%Claremont McKenna22.1%Colgate35.5%Columbia14.0%Cornell18.8%Davidson29.1%Duken/pEmory22.2%Hamilton28.1%Johns Hopkins10.9%Middlebury39.0%Northwestern20.4%Penn13.3%Reedn/pRice11.3%Smith33.5%Tufts32.0%UChicagon/pUSCn/pVanderbilt14.1%Vassar38.4%Washington & Lee27.6%WashU St. Louis27.0%Wellesley29.4%Wesleyan42.8%Williams26.6%

Number shown is the published Early Decision admit rate; n/p means the school does not publish it.