Early Decision
Colgate University Early Decision Acceptance Rate 2024-2025
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What is Colgate University's early decision acceptance rate?
Colgate University admitted 19.5% of its Early Decision applicants — 477 of 2,447 — according to its 2024-2025 Common Data Set. Everyone else in the same applicant pool was admitted at 13.1%, so the Early Decision rate was 1.5x the rest. These are the counts the school itself reported, not an estimate.
Source: Colgate University's Common Data Set 2024-2025.
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What Colgate University reported · Common Data Set 2024-2025 · checked Oct 2026
Early Decision · 477 admitted of 2,447 applied
19.5%
Everyone else in the same pool
13.1%
Early Decision rate ÷ rest-of-pool rate
1.5x
This compares two rates the school published for two groups of applicants. 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 is a difference between the school’s two pools, not a multiplier on your own chances.
Regular Decision acceptance rate at Colgate University
Outside Early Decision, Colgate University admitted 2,394 of 18,235 applicants in the 2024-2025 cycle: 13.1%. That counts everyone who did not apply Early Decision.
Calculated from published counts · Common Data Set 2024-2025 · checked Oct 2026
Does applying early decision to Colgate University help?
On Colgate University's figures, Early Decision applicants were admitted at 1.5x the rate of everyone else: 19.5% against 13.1%. That does not mean applying early would lift your own odds that much. Recruited athletes, legacy applicants and QuestBridge matches sit inside that pool, so part of the gap is who applies early, not when.
Source: Colgate University's Common Data Set 2024-2025.
Is early decision at Colgate University binding?
Yes. Early Decision is binding wherever it is offered, Colgate 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: Colgate University's Common Data Set 2024-2025.
When is Colgate University's early decision deadline?
For the 2026-27 application cycle, Colgate University set its Early Decision deadline at Nov 1, 2026. Its Early Decision II round closes Jan 15, 2027. Regular Decision applications are due Jan 15, 2027. Early Decision is binding, 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
1430–1540
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 2017 to 2024, Colgate University's overall acceptance rate fell from 28.1% to 13.9%. 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: Colgate University’s 2024-2025 Common Data Set.