Early Decision
Franklin and Marshall College Early Decision Acceptance Rate 2024-2025
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What is Franklin and Marshall College's early decision acceptance rate?
Franklin and Marshall College admitted 28.1% of its Early Decision applicants — 270 of 961 — according to its 2024-2025 Common Data Set. Everyone else in the same applicant pool was admitted at 28.2%, so the Early Decision rate was 1.0x the rest. These are the counts the school itself reported, not an estimate.
Source: Franklin and Marshall College's Common Data Set 2024-2025.
What Franklin and Marshall College reported · Common Data Set 2024-2025
Early Decision · 270 admitted of 961 applied
28.1%
Everyone else in the same pool
28.2%
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 Franklin and Marshall College help?
Not on Franklin and Marshall College's published figures. Early Decision applicants were admitted at 28.1% and everyone else at 28.2%, 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: Franklin and Marshall College's Common Data Set 2024-2025.
Is early decision at Franklin and Marshall College binding?
Yes. Early Decision is binding wherever it is offered, Franklin and Marshall 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: Franklin and Marshall College's Common Data Set 2024-2025.
When is Franklin and Marshall College's early decision deadline?
For the 2026-27 application cycle, Franklin and Marshall College set its Early Decision deadline at Nov 15, 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: Franklin and Marshall College's admissions website, 2026-27 cycle, checked Sep 27, 2026.
Admitted SAT · middle 50% · College Scorecard 2024
1310–1463
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, Franklin and Marshall College's overall acceptance rate fell from 34.1% to 28.2%. 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: Franklin and Marshall College’s 2024-2025 Common Data Set.