Early Decision
Lafayette College Early Decision Acceptance Rate 2024-2025
PA
What is Lafayette College's Early Decision acceptance rate?
Lafayette College admitted 42.4% of its 870 Early Decision applicants and 30.4% of everyone else in the same admissions cycle — 1.4x (Common Data Set 2024-2025).
What Lafayette College reported · Common Data Set 2024-2025
Early Decision · 369 admitted of 870 applied
42.4%
Everyone else in the same pool
30.4%
Early Decision rate ÷ rest-of-pool rate
1.4x
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.
Admitted SAT · middle 50% · College Scorecard 2024
1350–1500
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, Lafayette College's overall acceptance rate rose from 30.8% to 31.5%. 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 →Should you use your one Early Decision application here? — see the call on your list, $49
This page is one school. The call needs the rest of your list beside it — the same published figures, read against each other.
Read my list →Common Data Set — the school's own annual filing, published by the school itself for the cycle named beside each figure. Lafayette College’s filing