William & Mary acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

With an acceptance rate near 34%, William & Mary is a selective public university in Virginia. Because it admits a minority of applicants, admission turns on the strength of your whole profile rather than any one number.

Use this page to see what William & Mary weighs, where it ranks among Virginia schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1480, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

What are my chances at William & Mary with a 3.7 GPA and a 1470 SAT?

About 57% (Likely), by CollegeCalcAI's deterministic model, for an applicant with a 3.7 unweighted GPA and a 1470 SAT, the middle of William & Mary's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.9 GPA with a 1530 SAT comes out near 70%. Courses, activities, essays and the application round move the number; the free calculator includes them.

Estimates, not guarantees. Get yours with your real courses and activities. Assistants and developers can fetch this table from the free API: /api/v1/colleges/william-mary.

Source: William & Mary Common Data Set 2025-26. Read from the document twice independently; only matching figures are shown. See how early rounds compare across colleges in the Early Decision rankings.

Here is how to get into William & Mary, built from what its admitted class actually looks like and what the school says it weighs.

For the fall 2023 entering class, William & Mary received 17,548 applications and admitted 5,741, an acceptance rate of 32.7%. 1,619 enrolled. Only about 28% 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. William & Mary enrolls about 7,055 undergraduates in total, 59% of them women, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 12 to 1.

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

The middle 50% of admitted students at William & Mary scored between 1400 and 1530 on the SAT (average 1473). On the ACT the middle 50% runs from 32 to 34. A score above 1530 puts you in the top quarter of admits and turns the test into an asset; a score below 1400 puts you in the bottom quarter, where the rest of the application has to carry more weight. William & Mary 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, William & Mary leans most on rigor of secondary school record, academic GPA, and class rank. Solid grades in a challenging schedule do most of the work here, with the rest of the application providing context. These ratings come from William & Mary's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

William & Mary's published cost of attendance, before any aid, is roughly $43,035 per year. Tuition and fees are $25,914 for VA residents and $51,038 for out-of-state students, a $25,124 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 $19,096 a year, and it ranges from $3,106 for families earning under $30,000 to $34,370 for families earning over $110,000. 12% 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 William & Mary student who received federal aid earns $73,490 a year, up from $62,959 at six years. 89% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 95% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $18,500; 22% 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 28 Virginia schools we track, William & Mary ranks #4 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like Washington and Lee University (14%) and University of Virginia (17%) sit nearby, which makes Virginia 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 William & Mary with peers at a comparable selectivity, such as Southern University, UC Santa Barbara, and San Diego State 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.