Colorado School of Mines acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

With an acceptance rate near 61%, Colorado School of Mines is a moderately selective public university in Colorado. Because it admits more applicants than it rejects, admission turns on the strength of your whole profile rather than any one number.

Use this page to see what Colorado School of Mines weighs, where it ranks among Colorado schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1420, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

What are my chances at Colorado School of Mines with a 3.1 GPA and a 1400 SAT?

About 78% (Safety), by CollegeCalcAI's deterministic model, for an applicant with a 3.1 unweighted GPA and a 1400 SAT, the middle of Colorado School of Mines's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.4 GPA with a 1480 SAT comes out near 94%. Courses, activities, essays and the application round move the number; the free calculator includes them.

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Here is how to get into Colorado School of Mines, built from what its admitted class actually looks like and what the school says it weighs.

For the fall 2023 entering class, Colorado School of Mines received 9,821 applications and admitted 5,864, an acceptance rate of 59.7%. 1,445 enrolled. Only about 25% of admitted students enrolled, so the school admits several students for every seat it expects to fill, which is why its acceptance rate reads higher than its selectivity feels. Colorado School of Mines enrolls about 6,155 undergraduates in total, 32% of them women, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 18 to 1.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, IPEDS 2023 admissions and enrollment.

The middle 50% of admitted students at Colorado School of Mines scored between 1320 and 1480 on the SAT (average 1412). On the ACT the middle 50% runs from 29 to 33. A score above 1480 puts you in the top quarter of admits and turns the test into an asset; a score below 1320 puts you in the bottom quarter, where the rest of the application has to carry more weight. Colorado School of Mines is test-optional: scores are considered if you submit them but not required. Send a score at or above the middle of the admitted range; otherwise apply without one and let your transcript lead.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10.

In its review, Colorado School of Mines leans most on rigor of secondary school record, academic GPA, and standardized test scores. Solid grades in a challenging schedule do most of the work here, with the rest of the application providing context. These ratings come from Colorado School of Mines's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

Colorado School of Mines's published cost of attendance, before any aid, is roughly $40,560 per year. Tuition and fees are $21,914 for CO residents and $45,824 for out-of-state students, a $23,910 gap that makes residency the single biggest lever on cost. What families actually pay is different: the average net price after grants and scholarships is $28,690 a year, and it ranges from $16,849 for families earning under $30,000 to $35,112 for families earning over $110,000. 14% of undergraduates receive a federal Pell Grant.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Net price is what students receiving aid paid after grants, by family income.

Ten years after enrolling, the median Colorado School of Mines student who received federal aid earns $97,335 a year, up from $82,950 at six years. 82% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 93% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $23,000; 32% of undergraduates take federal loans.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Earnings cover students who received federal aid.

Among the 16 Colorado schools we track, Colorado School of Mines ranks #3 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like U.S. Air Force Academy (14%) and Colorado College (18%) sit nearby, which makes Colorado a useful frame for calibrating a balanced list. As a public university, residency matters: in-state applicants generally see meaningfully better odds than the headline rate suggests.

Build around Colorado School of Mines with peers at a comparable selectivity, such as Ohio State University, Hawaii Hilo, and College of Charleston. Running the same profile against each one in the free calculator is the fastest way to see where you are a reach, a match, or a likely.

Acceptance rate, application counts, admitted test ranges, cost, and outcomes reflect publicly reported federal data (U.S. Department of Education: IPEDS 2023 and the College Scorecard) and each school's Common Data Set; figures are rounded and lag the current cycle by one to two years, so confirm deadlines and policies on the school's own site. The typical-admit GPA and SAT are CollegeCalcAI's modeled estimates. Estimates from CollegeCalcAI are a planning tool computed by a fixed, transparent model, not a guarantee of any admission decision.