Bryn Mawr College's admit rate has fallen 17.3 percentage points across the 18 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 | 28.1% | 329 | 83.2% | 95.0% | 1,380 |
| 2024-2025 | 29.4% | 380 | — | — | 1,400 |
| 2023-2024 | — | — | 86.0% | 90.0% | — |
| 2022-2023 | 30.8% | 396 | 82.6% | 90.3% | 1,400 |
| 2021-2022 | 39.3% | 422 | 87.0% | 88.6% | — |
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 11.2 percentage points over 4 reporting cycles.
Bryn Mawr College's admit rate fell from 39.3% (2021-2022) to 28.1% (2025-2026) — a 11.2 pp drop. Year-over-year: 39.3 → 30.8 → 29.4 → 28.1. A snapshot of the current year alone would hide this structural shift.
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 27 percentage points.
Bryn Mawr 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 Bryn Mawr College applicants most commonly also apply to range from 7.5% admit to 38.4% admit — a 30.9 pp band. A reasonable read: applicants choose by region or program fit rather than selectivity tier alone.
First-year retention is among the highest in the index.
Bryn Mawr College's 95.0% first-year retention exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 76.8% by 18.2 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 →
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