Colleges

College facts, from the source

Each page shows what the college and the Department of Education publish: the acceptance rate and its year, deadlines, testing and cost after aid. Every number links to where it came from.

248 colleges, each checked against its own sources

What each page shows

  • The first-year acceptance rate and the year it covers, from the college's Common Data Set.
  • Whether the college publishes rates by school or major, and the rates when it does.
  • Programs that ask for more: auditions, portfolios, required courses.
  • Application deadlines, and which plans are binding.
  • The test policy, in the college's own words.
  • The published cost of a year, and what families paid after grants by income, from the College Scorecard.

What they leave out

Your odds. A college's rate is everyone's average, and your chances depend on your grades, courses, activities and intended major. The free read works them out from your own record.

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