Hendrix College's admit rate has fallen 11.9 percentage points across the 5 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 60.3% | 363 | 69.0% | 78.0% | 1,230 |
| 2021-2022 | 68.3% | 316 | 72.9% | 80.3% | — |
| 2020-2021 | 70.5% | 310 | 65.5% | 82.0% | — |
| 2019-2020 | 70.0% | 284 | 72.6% | — | — |
| 2018-2019 | 72.2% | 309 | — | — | — |
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Admit rate has tightened 11.9 percentage points over 5 reporting cycles.
Hendrix College's admit rate fell from 72.2% (2018-2019) to 60.3% (2022-2023) — a 11.9 pp drop. Year-over-year: 72.2 → 70.0 → 70.5 → 68.3 → 60.3. A snapshot of the current year alone would hide this structural shift.
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 13 percentage points.
Hendrix College's 69.0% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 12.7 pp.
Broadly accessible — admit rate near the national norm.
Hendrix College's 60.3% 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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