Hood College acceptance rate and admissions profile

Hood College is a private college in Maryland that admits most qualified applicants (around 78%), 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 Hood College weighs, where it ranks among Maryland schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1230, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

Hood College signals that it values rigor of secondary school record, academic GPA, and standardized test scores 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 Hood 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 17 Maryland schools we track, Hood College ranks #10 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like Johns Hopkins University (6%) and U.S. Naval Academy (9%) sit nearby, which makes Maryland a useful frame for calibrating a balanced list.

If Hood College is on your list, schools with a similar admit profile are worth a look: University of Denver, University of Evansville, and Elizabethtown College. 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.