Early Decision
Butler University Early Decision Acceptance Rate 2025-2026
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What is Butler University's early decision acceptance rate?
Butler University admitted 17 of its 20 Early Decision applicants, 85.0%, according to its 2025-2026 Common Data Set. That pool is under the 400 applications this site requires before comparing it with everyone else, so no rest-of-pool rate or multiple is given: on a pool this small, a ratio is noise, not leverage.
Source: Butler University's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
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What Butler University reported · Common Data Set 2025-2026 · checked Oct 2026
Early Decision · 17 admitted of 20 applied
85.0%
The Early Decision pool is not a random slice of the applicants — recruited athletes, legacy applicants and QuestBridge matches are counted inside it — so this rate describes that group, not an applicant like you.
Does applying early decision to Butler University help?
Butler University's figures cannot say. Its Early Decision pool, 20 applications, is under the 400 this site requires before comparing it with everyone else, so there is no rest-of-pool rate or multiple to weigh. The 85.0% Early Decision rate also counts recruited athletes, legacy applicants and QuestBridge matches, so it describes that group, not you.
Source: Butler University's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
Is early decision at Butler University binding?
Yes. Early Decision is binding wherever it is offered, Butler University included: you may apply Early Decision to only one school, and if admitted you commit to attend and withdraw your other applications. The usual exception is an aid offer your family cannot afford, so check the costs on this page before you apply.
Source: Butler University's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
When is Butler University's early decision deadline?
For the 2026-27 application cycle, Butler University set its Early Decision deadline at Nov 1, 2026. Regular Decision applications are due Feb 1, 2027. Early Decision is binding: if admitted, you commit to attend, so compare the costs on this page before that date, not after an offer arrives.
Source: the Common App requirements grid, 2026-27 cycle, checked Sep 27, 2026.
Admitted SAT · middle 50% · Common Data Set 2025-2026
1163–1330
Half of admitted students scored inside this range. It is the admitted band, not a minimum and not a cutoff, and it covers the whole entering class rather than the Early Decision round alone.
What families actually pay (AY 2023–24)
Early Decision is binding, so accepting one ends the option of comparing two aid offers. These are the published averages before that choice is made.
Average paid by students receiving federal aid, by family income (College Scorecard).
International students are not eligible for U.S. federal aid, so they are not in this cohort and typically pay closer to the sticker price.
Across the 8 recorded cycles from 2018 to 2025, Butler University's overall acceptance rate rose from 67.8% to 82.1%. That is the whole entering class — Early Decision, Early Action and Regular Decision together — not the Early Decision round on its own.
See the year-by-year series →Common Data Set — the school's own annual filing, published by the school itself for the cycle named beside each figure. Source: Butler University’s 2025-2026 Common Data Set.