Gettysburg College's admit rate has fallen 6.5 percentage points across the 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-2025 | 38.9% | 508 | 83.0% | 91.1% | — |
| 2023-2024 | 47.5% | 605 | 83.0% | 90.0% | — |
| 2022-2023 | 56.3% | 644 | 82.0% | 89.0% | — |
| 2021-2022 | 56.3% | 623 | 82.3% | 91.0% | — |
| 2020-2021 | 48.2% | 640 | 85.0% | 91.0% | — |
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.
Admit rate has tightened 9.3 percentage points over 5 reporting cycles.
Gettysburg College's admit rate fell from 48.2% (2020-2021) to 38.9% (2024-2025) — a 9.3 pp drop. Year-over-year: 48.2 → 56.3 → 56.3 → 47.5 → 38.9. A snapshot of the current year alone would hide this structural shift.
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 27 percentage points.
Gettysburg College's 83.0% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 26.7 pp.
Cross-admits concentrated in the home region.
4 of 4 cross-admit schools are in PA — Gettysburg College 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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