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Acceptance Rate History

St Olaf College Acceptance Rate: 48.3% in 2024 (2013–2024 history)

MN · Current rate: 48.3%

College Scorecard · IPEDSU.S. Dept. of Education
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What is St Olaf College's acceptance rate in 2024?

St Olaf College's acceptance rate in 2024 is 48.3%, down from 52.2% in 2023.

College Scorecard 2024

Regular Decision acceptance rate at St Olaf College

Outside Early Decision, St Olaf College admitted 2,894 of 6,806 applicants in the 2025-2026 cycle: 42.5%. That counts everyone who did not apply Early Decision.

St Olaf College's Early Decision II deadline for the 2026-27 cycle is Jan 15, 2027.

Calculated from published counts · Common Data Set 2025-2026 · checked Oct 2026

Year-by-Year Data

YearAcceptance RateApplicantsAdmitted
202448.3%6,6233,200
202352.2%5,9563,106
202256.4%5,5243,116
202147.4%6,4943,080
202050.8%5,2312,658
201947.5%5,6942,705
201849.9%5,4962,743
201743.2%5,9492,571
201644.8%6,0412,704
201536.0%7,5712,723
201451.3%4,8752,500
201359.2%4,0112,374

Source: IPEDS Admissions Survey (NCES) · College Scorecard

Cost

Sticker pricePublished cost of attendance — tuition, fees, housing and food. (AY 2023–24)
$71,843/yr
What families actually payAvg. for families receiving federal aid (AY 2023–24)
$23,874/yr
4-year totalSticker cost of attendance × 4 years. (AY 2023–24)
$287,372
Tuition(AY 2024–25)
$59,760/yr
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entryFormer students, federal earnings records. (measured 2020–21, entry cohort 2009–11)
$65,543/yr

The same school, two different prices

Family income under $30k: $10,404/yr · Family income over $110k: $33,166/yr (AY 2023–24)

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.

High-income families typically pay closer to sticker.

Admitted Student Profile

SAT Range · Middle 50% (25th–75th)

1300–1470

College Scorecard 2024

Admitted students at St Olaf College scored between 1300 and 1470 on the SAT (middle 50%).

Source: College Scorecard · U.S. Dept of Education

How to read these numbers

  • The 2024 rate covers St Olaf College's whole applicant pool — early and regular applications counted together in one figure. It is not the rate of any single round.
  • 1300–1470 is the middle half of admitted scores, not a cutoff: a quarter of admitted students scored below 1300, and a quarter scored above 1470.
  • The table above holds 12 reported years, 2013 through 2024. Across them St Olaf College's rate ranged from 36.0% to 59.2%, so any single year is one point inside that range.

Each figure above describes a class a school already admitted in a completed cycle. It is a record of who was admitted, not a measurement of any one application.

Source: College Scorecard · IPEDS Admissions Survey (NCES) · U.S. Dept. of Education

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School

St Olaf College

St Olaf College

SAT

40013001470

Middle 50% of admitted students scored 1300–1470.

GPA

No published GPA data for this school.

This is SAT only — one slice of an application, not the whole of it.

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Trend Analysis

St Olaf College's acceptance rate has decreased from 59.2% in 2013 to 48.3% in 2024, reflecting increased selectivity. The most notable shift occurred in 2015.

Analysis compiled from official data trends.

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