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Test policy: Test-optional.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1430\u20131530, ACT 33\u201334. 21% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 18% an ACT \u2014 these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class. Average enrolled GPA 3.85 (unweighted, 2024-25, as published by the college).","Cost: about $28,786 a year on average with aid, $87,070 a year at full price.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $85,139 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $736,246 ahead with aid, $503,110 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer Science ($161,980); Economics ($128,887); Political Science and Government ($83,188).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 2% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 37% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","Aid pledge published by the college for 2026-27: families earning under $175,000 pay no tuition; aid packages carry no loans for families under $200,000; the college meets full demonstrated need.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Colgate University: 121, 436 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often The Hotchkiss School (4.5 per class year, 18 over 4 class years, Classes of 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026); Berkshire School (4.0 per class year, 4 over 1 class year, Class of 2021); The Rivers School (3.4 per class year, 17 over 5 class years, 2022-2026). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/colgate-university.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Colgate University: 8, 52 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Middlesex School (6.0 per class year, 6 over 1 class year, Class of 2026, counted column \"accepted\"); The Chapin School (4.8 per class year, 24 over 5 class years, 2022-2026, counted column \"Admitted\"); National Cathedral School (2.7 per class year, 8 over 3 class years, 2023-2025). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/colgate-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/colgate-university.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Private nonprofit","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":6086},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":2678},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":13617},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":21831}],"full_price":87070,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":28786,"npc_url":"https://npc.collegeboard.org/app/colgate","tuition_in_state":70306,"tuition_out_of_state":70306},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":85139,"median_6yr_after_entry":64949},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":52,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. 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