Haverford College's admit rate has fallen 6.4 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 | 12.4% | 387 | 90.0% | 93.8% | 1,500 |
| 2023-2024 | 11.4% | 153 | 89.0% | 94.0% | — |
| 2022-2023 | 14.2% | 362 | 91.4% | 96.0% | 1,490 |
| 2021-2022 | 17.8% | 411 | 90.1% | 94.0% | — |
| 2020-2021 | 18.2% | 334 | 92.6% | 88.4% | — |
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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.
Highly selective — top tier of CDS Atlas schools.
Haverford College's 12.4% admit rate places it among 50 of 334 covered schools admitting below 15% (~15.0% of the index).
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 34 percentage points.
Haverford College's 90.0% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 33.7 pp.
Admit rate has tightened 5.9 percentage points over 5 reporting cycles.
Haverford College's admit rate fell from 18.2% (2020-2021) to 12.4% (2024-2025) — a 5.9 pp drop. Year-over-year: 18.2 → 17.8 → 14.2 → 11.4 → 12.4. A snapshot of the current year alone would hide this structural shift.
Sources: each school's officially-published Common Data Set; IPEDS / College Scorecard for federal comparisons. Methodology →
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