Davis & Elkins College acceptance rate and admissions profile

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.

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.

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 and admitted test ranges reflect publicly reported data (U.S. Department of Education / NCES IPEDS / Common Data Sets). Estimates from CollegeCalcAI are a planning tool computed by a fixed, transparent model, not a guarantee of any admission decision.