Gustavus Adolphus College's admit rate has fallen 5.1 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 | 61.1% | 490 | 80.0% | 88.0% | — |
| 2023-2024 | 61.9% | 499 | 78.0% | 84.0% | — |
| 2022-2023 | 73.9% | 463 | 77.8% | 86.0% | — |
| 2021-2022 | 72.6% | 551 | 77.9% | 84.0% | — |
| 2020-2021 | 70.6% | 587 | 78.2% | 88.0% | — |
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Admit rate has tightened 9.5 percentage points over 5 reporting cycles.
Gustavus Adolphus College's admit rate fell from 70.6% (2020-2021) to 61.1% (2024-2025) — a 9.5 pp drop. Year-over-year: 70.6 → 72.6 → 73.9 → 61.9 → 61.1. A snapshot of the current year alone would hide this structural shift.
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 24 percentage points.
Gustavus Adolphus College's 80.0% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 23.7 pp.
Broadly accessible — admit rate near the national norm.
Gustavus Adolphus College's 61.1% admit rate is in line with the national 4-year-institution median of 76.6% (per IPEDS, n=1437 institutions). Most U.S. four-year colleges admit between 61.2% and 88.3% of applicants.
Sources: each school's officially-published Common Data Set; IPEDS / College Scorecard for federal comparisons. Methodology →
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