Davis & Elkins College acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

Davis & Elkins College is a private college in West Virginia that admits most qualified applicants (around 94%), which puts it in the accessible range. A rate like this means it admits most qualified applicants; the bar is less about clearing a single cutoff and more about how your full profile compares to admitted students.

Use this page to see what Davis & Elkins College weighs, where it ranks among West Virginia schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1150, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

What are my chances at Davis & Elkins College with a 3.1 GPA and a 1090 SAT?

About 98% (Safety), by CollegeCalcAI's deterministic model, for an applicant with a 3.1 unweighted GPA and a 1090 SAT, the middle of Davis & Elkins College's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.4 GPA with a 1150 SAT comes out near 98%. Courses, activities, essays and the application round move the number; the free calculator includes them.

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Getting into Davis & Elkins College comes down to four decisions, each one visible in the data on this page.

929 students applied to Davis & Elkins College for fall 2023; 541 were admitted (58.2%). 237 enrolled. Roughly 44% of admitted students enrolled, a typical yield for a school in this range. Davis & Elkins College enrolls about 661 undergraduates in total, 57% of them women, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1.

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

Davis & Elkins College reports that it neither requires nor recommends test scores, so admission turns on your transcript, rigor, and the rest of the file.

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

Davis & Elkins College signals that it values rigor of secondary school record, academic GPA, and character / personal qualities above the rest of the file. Solid grades in a challenging schedule do most of the work here, with the rest of the application providing context. These ratings come from Davis & Elkins College's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

The full sticker price at Davis & Elkins College (tuition, fees, housing, food, books) is about $44,888 a year. Tuition and fees alone are $31,820. What families actually pay is different: the average net price after grants and scholarships is $18,273 a year, and it ranges from $15,999 for families earning under $30,000 to $22,496 for families earning over $110,000. 43% 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.

Median earnings for Davis & Elkins College students ten years after entry are $43,411 ($38,495 at the six-year mark). 39% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 65% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $27,000; 63% 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 15 West Virginia schools we track, Davis & Elkins College ranks #9 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like Bethany College (WV) (59%) and Charleston University (WV) (62%) sit nearby, which makes West Virginia a useful frame for calibrating a balanced list.

If Davis & Elkins College is on your list, schools with a similar admit profile are worth a look: Barton College, Coker University, and George Fox University. 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.