Early Decision
College of Charleston Early Decision Acceptance Rate 2025-2026
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What is College of Charleston's early decision acceptance rate?
College of Charleston admitted 72.0% of its Early Decision applicants — 308 of 428 — according to its 2025-2026 Common Data Set. Everyone else in the same applicant pool was admitted at 73.0%, so the Early Decision rate was 1.0x the rest. These are the counts the school itself reported, not an estimate.
Source: College of Charleston's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
What College of Charleston reported · Common Data Set 2025-2026
Early Decision · 308 admitted of 428 applied
72.0%
Everyone else in the same pool
73.0%
Early Decision rate ÷ rest-of-pool rate
1.0x
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.
Does applying early decision to College of Charleston help?
Not on College of Charleston's published figures. Early Decision applicants were admitted at 72.0% and everyone else at 73.0%, a 1.0x ratio, which is no real edge. Because recruited athletes and legacy applicants also sit inside the Early Decision pool, an applicant outside those groups gets no visible odds benefit for spending the one binding application here.
Source: College of Charleston's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
Is early decision at College of Charleston binding?
Yes. Early Decision is binding wherever it is offered, College of Charleston 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: College of Charleston's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
When is College of Charleston's early decision deadline?
For the 2026-27 application cycle, College of Charleston set its Early Decision deadline at Nov 2, 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
1140–1310
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, College of Charleston's overall acceptance rate fell from 80.5% to 60.0%. 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: College of Charleston’s 2025-2026 Common Data Set.