Early Decision
Coastal Carolina University Early Decision Acceptance Rate 2025-2026
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What is Coastal Carolina University's early decision acceptance rate?
Coastal Carolina University admitted 303 of its 348 Early Decision applicants, 87.1%, 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: Coastal Carolina University's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
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What Coastal Carolina University reported · Common Data Set 2025-2026 · checked Oct 2026
Early Decision · 303 admitted of 348 applied
87.1%
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 Coastal Carolina University help?
Coastal Carolina University's figures cannot say. Its Early Decision pool, 348 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 87.1% Early Decision rate also counts recruited athletes, legacy applicants and QuestBridge matches, so it describes that group, not you.
Source: Coastal Carolina University's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
Is early decision at Coastal Carolina University binding?
Yes. Early Decision is binding wherever it is offered, Coastal Carolina 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: Coastal Carolina University's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
When is Coastal Carolina University's early decision deadline?
For the 2026-27 application cycle, Coastal Carolina University set its Early Decision deadline at Oct 19, 2026. Regular Decision applications are due Feb 15, 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% · College Scorecard 2024
1050–1220
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).
In-state students only.
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 2017 to 2024, Coastal Carolina University's overall acceptance rate rose from 61.2% to 75.3%. 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: Coastal Carolina University’s 2025-2026 Common Data Set.