Carleton College's admit rate has fallen 15.4 percentage points across the 23 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 | 21.8% | 518 | 89.4% | 94.5% | 1,500 |
| 2024-2025 | 20.4% | 507 | 88.1% | 96.5% | — |
| 2023-2024 | 20.5% | 260 | 91.0% | 96.0% | — |
| 2022-2023 | 16.6% | 532 | 90.7% | 94.8% | 1,490 |
| 2021-2022 | 17.6% | 555 | 91.4% | 93.8% | — |
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.
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 33 percentage points.
Carleton College's 89.4% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 33.1 pp.
Cross-admit cohort spans an unusually wide selectivity range.
The schools Carleton College applicants most commonly also apply to range from 6.8% admit to 34.2% admit — a 27.4 pp band. A reasonable read: applicants choose by region or program fit rather than selectivity tier alone.
Sources: each school's officially-published Common Data Set; IPEDS / College Scorecard for federal comparisons. Methodology →
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