Early Decision
Pitzer College Early Decision Acceptance Rate 2025-2026
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What is Pitzer College's early decision acceptance rate?
Pitzer College admitted 167 of its 385 Early Decision applicants, 43.4%, according to its 2025-2026 Common Data Set. That pool is under the 400 applications this site requires before comparing it with everyone else, so no rest-of-pool rate or multiple is given: on a pool this small, a ratio is noise, not leverage.
Source: Pitzer College's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
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What Pitzer College reported · Common Data Set 2025-2026 · checked Oct 2026
Early Decision · 167 admitted of 385 applied
43.4%
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 rate describes that group, not an applicant like you.
Does applying early decision to Pitzer College help?
Pitzer College's figures cannot say. Its Early Decision pool, 385 applications, is under the 400 this site requires before comparing it with everyone else, so there is no rest-of-pool rate or multiple to weigh. The 43.4% Early Decision rate also counts recruited athletes, legacy applicants and QuestBridge matches, so it describes that group, not you.
Source: Pitzer College's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
Is early decision at Pitzer College binding?
Yes. Early Decision is binding wherever it is offered, Pitzer 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: Pitzer College's Common Data Set 2025-2026.
When is Pitzer College's early decision deadline?
For the 2026-27 application cycle, Pitzer College set its Early Decision deadline at Nov 15, 2026. Its Early Decision II round closes Jan 10, 2027. Regular Decision applications are due Jan 10, 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.
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, Pitzer College's overall acceptance rate rose from 16.2% to 25.2%. 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: Pitzer College’s 2025-2026 Common Data Set.