Allegheny College: insights · College Underdog

Allegheny College

What Allegheny College's own numbers say, from its Common Data Set 2024-25.

InternationalAllegheny College

12% of international applicants are admitted, against 55% overall.

Overall55%

International12%

Source: Allegheny College's Common Data Set 2024-25

Women and menAllegheny College

Women are admitted at 63%, men at 48%.

Women63%

Men48%

Source: Allegheny College's Common Data Set 2024-25

Who says yesAllegheny College

Only 10% of admits enroll, so Allegheny College admits far more students than it has seats.

Enroll10%

Go elsewhere90%

Source: Allegheny College's Common Data Set 2024-25

The share of women in the first-year class has fallen from 56% to 48% since 2018-19, about 1.5 points a year.
10% of admitted students chose to enroll, lower than 89% of similar colleges.
After ED, 298 of 327 seats were left for 5,633 other applicants: about one seat for every 19.
Applications rose 5% from 2018-19 to 2024-25 (5,479 to 5,757).
Men were admitted at a lower rate: 62.9% for women against 47.6% for men.

From students' own posts on Reddit and admissions forums: self-reported, unverified, never used in your odds.

All 3 admits who named a round applied Early Action.
About 4 admits did hands-on bioinformatics or machine-learning research on biology data, often with summer genomics or cancer-informatics programs.
About 8 admits had sustained volunteering, tutoring or mentoring, such as hospital volunteering or running a club.
Students report Allegheny's listed cost is about $21K a year with work-study, and one admit said it cost roughly $9K more a year than a cheaper public option.