Early Decision
Connecticut College Early Decision Acceptance Rate 2025-2026
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What is Connecticut College's early decision acceptance rate?
Connecticut College admitted 40.7% of its Early Decision applicants — 222 of 546 — according to its 2025-2026 Common Data Set. Everyone else in the same applicant pool was admitted at 39.1%, so the Early Decision rate was 1.0x the rest. These are the counts the school itself reported, not an estimate.
Source: Connecticut College's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
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What Connecticut College reported · Common Data Set 2025-2026 · checked Oct 2026
Early Decision · 222 admitted of 546 applied
40.7%
Everyone else in the same pool
39.1%
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.
Regular Decision acceptance rate at Connecticut College
Outside Early Decision, Connecticut College admitted 2,653 of 6,792 applicants in the 2025-2026 cycle: 39.1%. That counts everyone who did not apply Early Decision.
Calculated from published counts · Common Data Set 2025-2026 · checked Oct 2026
Does applying early decision to Connecticut College help?
Not on Connecticut College's published figures. Early Decision applicants were admitted at 40.7% and everyone else at 39.1%, 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: Connecticut College's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
Is early decision at Connecticut College binding?
Yes. Early Decision is binding wherever it is offered, Connecticut College 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: Connecticut College's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
When is Connecticut College's early decision deadline?
For the 2026-27 application cycle, Connecticut College 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% · Common Data Set 2025-2026
1160–1370
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, Connecticut College's overall acceptance rate rose from 37.8% to 39.2%. 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: Connecticut College’s 2025-2026 Common Data Set.