{"admissions":{"act_25":null,"act_75":null,"admit_rate":16.7,"applicants":3464,"sat_25":null,"sat_75":null,"source_year":2023,"submit_share":null,"test_policy":"Test-optional"},"admit_by_major":null,"aid_policy":null,"at_a_glance":["Pitzer College is a private nonprofit four-year college in CA. It admitted 17% of applicants (3,464 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.","Average enrolled GPA 3.99 (unweighted, 2023-24, as published by the college).","Cost: about $34,191 a year on average with aid, $86,466 a year at full price.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $69,512 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $558,356 ahead with aid, $349,256 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Human Resources Management and Services ($89,636); Political Science and Government ($68,831).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 6% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 35% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Pitzer College: 64, 196 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Harker School (2.3 per class year, 7 over 3 class years, Classes of 2023, 2024 & 2025); The Northwest School (2.2 per class year, 11 over 5 class years, classes of 2021-2025); Northfield Mount Hermon (2.0 per class year, 8 over 4 class years, the past four years). 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/pitzer-college.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Pitzer College: 4, 8 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Archbishop Mitty High School (3.0 per class year, 3 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); Laguna Blanca School (0.4 per class year, 2 over 5 class years, Classes of 2022-2026); The Chapin School (0.4 per class year, 2 over 5 class years, 2022-2026, counted column \"Admitted\"). 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/pitzer-college.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/pitzer-college.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":14535},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":7769},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":20846},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":29452}],"full_price":86466,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":34191,"npc_url":"https://npc.collegeboard.org/app/pitzer","tuition_in_state":65192,"tuition_out_of_state":65192},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":69512,"median_6yr_after_entry":51784},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":8,"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. Admits are counted at each college a student was admitted to, so this counts admissions rather than students, the same way the UC Reach Score counts a student admitted to three UC campuses three times. These rows are never added to, or ranked against, the enrollment rows above: an acceptances list runs about three times an enrollment list.","ranked_by":"admissions per class year (published total \u00f7 class years covered)","schools":[{"counted_column":null,"per_year":3.0,"school":"Archbishop Mitty High School","span":1,"students":3,"total":3,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/schools/archbishop-mitty-high-school","verified":true,"years":"Class of 2025"},{"counted_column":null,"per_year":0.4,"school":"Laguna Blanca School","span":5,"students":2,"total":2,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/schools/laguna-blanca-school","verified":true,"years":"Classes of 2022-2026"},{"counted_column":"Admitted","per_year":0.4,"school":"The Chapin School","span":5,"students":2,"total":2,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/the-chapin-school","verified":true,"years":"2022-2026"},{"counted_column":null,"per_year":0.2,"school":"The Altamont School","span":5,"students":1,"total":1,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/the-altamont-school","verified":true,"years":"Classes of 2021-2025"}],"schools_publishing":4,"schools_ranked":4,"unranked":[]},"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered matriculation list. Schools are ranked by graduates per class year \u2014 the published total divided by the class years that school's list covers \u2014 because a five-year list and a one-year list are not the same window; `total`, `span` and the school's verbatim `years` ride with every row. A school whose class years cannot be read is not ranked: it is listed under `unranked` with its total. Schools that publish no numbered list are absent; absence says nothing about their graduates.","ranked_by":"graduates per class year (published total \u00f7 class years covered)","schools":[{"counted_column":null,"per_year":2.3,"school":"Harker School","span":3,"students":7,"total":7,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/schools/harker-school","verified":true,"years":"Classes of 2023, 2024 & 2025"},{"counted_column":null,"per_year":2.2,"school":"The Northwest School","span":5,"students":11,"total":11,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/the-northwest-school","verified":true,"years":"classes of 2021-2025"},{"counted_column":null,"per_year":2.0,"school":"Northfield Mount Hermon","span":4,"students":8,"total":8,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/northfield-mount-hermon","verified":true,"years":"the past four years"},{"counted_column":null,"per_year":2.0,"school":"Chadwick 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