Early Decision
Gettysburg College Early Decision Acceptance Rate 2025-2026
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What is Gettysburg College's early decision acceptance rate?
Gettysburg College admitted 37.7% of its Early Decision applicants — 292 of 774 — according to its 2025-2026 Common Data Set. Everyone else in the same applicant pool was admitted at 40.3%, so the Early Decision rate was 0.9x the rest. These are the counts the school itself reported, not an estimate.
Source: Gettysburg College's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
What Gettysburg College reported · Common Data Set 2025-2026
Early Decision · 292 admitted of 774 applied
37.7%
Everyone else in the same pool
40.3%
Early Decision rate ÷ rest-of-pool rate
0.9x
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 Gettysburg College help?
Not on Gettysburg College's published figures. Early Decision applicants were admitted at 37.7% and everyone else at 40.3%, a 0.9x 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: Gettysburg College's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
Is early decision at Gettysburg College binding?
Yes. Early Decision is binding wherever it is offered, Gettysburg 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: Gettysburg College's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
When is Gettysburg College's early decision deadline?
For the 2026-27 application cycle, Gettysburg College set its Early Decision deadline at Nov 1, 2026. Its Early Decision II round closes Jan 20, 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
1270–1460
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, Gettysburg College's overall acceptance rate fell from 45.8% to 38.9%. 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: Gettysburg College’s 2025-2026 Common Data Set.