Wheaton College (Massachusetts)'s admit rate has fallen 7.0 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-2026 | 62.8% | 456 | 72.5% | 88.3% | 1,290 |
| 2024-2025 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2022-2023 | 77.1% | 458 | 77.5% | 87.4% | — |
| 2020-2021 | 77.1% | 458 | 77.5% | 87.4% | — |
| 2019-2020 | 73.9% | 506 | 75.0% | 83.0% | — |
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Admit rate has tightened 11.1 percentage points over 4 reporting cycles.
Wheaton College (Massachusetts)'s admit rate fell from 73.9% (2019-2020) to 62.8% (2025-2026) — a 11.1 pp drop. Year-over-year: 73.9 → 77.1 → 77.1 → 62.8. A snapshot of the current year alone would hide this structural shift.
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 16 percentage points.
Wheaton College (Massachusetts)'s 72.5% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 16.2 pp.
Broadly accessible — admit rate near the national norm.
Wheaton College (Massachusetts)'s 62.8% 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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