Hamilton College is an elite liberal arts college located in Kirkland, New York, that routinely admits applicants at a highly selective acceptance rate that has recently dipped into the low teens. If you applied to Hamilton College for admission to the Class of 2030, you’ve already received a decision regarding the fate of your application. As for the rest of us, we’re still awaiting the public release of the admissions statistics. However, by reviewing historical acceptance rate data, Ivy Coach will put forward our prediction of what the data for this most recent admissions cycle could reveal, if and when it is released. And for those who have been waitlisted to Hamilton College this year, we’ll lay out a path forward to get your application out of limbo.

Hamilton College Admissions Statistics (Class of 2030 – Class of 2015)

Hamilton College Class Year	Total Applications Received	Total Applications Accepted	Overall Acceptance Rate
Class of 2030	Not Yet Published	Not Yet Published	Not Yet Published
Class of 2029	8,904	1,210	13.59%
Class of 2028	8,531	1,162	13.62%
Class of 2027	9,643	1,135	11.77%
Class of 2026	9,899	1,166	11.78%
Class of 2025	9,380	1,320	14.07%
Class of 2024	7,443	1,370	18.41%
Class of 2023	8,339	1,367	16.39%
Class of 2022	6,240	1,328	21.28%
Class of 2021	5,678	1,375	24.22%
Class of 2020	5,230	1,364	26.08%
Class of 2019	5,434	1,348	24.81%
Class of 2018	5,071	1,336	26.35%
Class of 2017	5,017	1,364	27.19%
Class of 2016	5,107	1,390	27.22%
Class of 2015	5,265	1,441	27.37%

Hamilton College Class of 2030 Statistics in Historical Perspective

As we await the Class of 2030, let’s take a look at recent admissions cycles to contextualize the trends likely at play in this year’s application process. Over the past five years, an average of 9,271 students applied to Hamilton per year, while only 1,199, or 12.97%, were accepted. The lowest acceptance rate on record for the Class of 2027, admitted three years ago, clocked in at 11.77%, while the largest-ever applicant pool was amassed one year prior, when the Class of 2026 saw 9,899 hopeful Continentals submit applications.

Taken as a whole, these data suggest that Hamilton College has generally become more difficult to get into with each year, although the peak of this trend appears to have crested three to four years ago. The Class of 2030 will likely maintain an acceptance rate in the low teens, but will likely not set any new records for total application volume or the lowest acceptance rate.

Profile of Hamilton Admits to the Class of 2030

We’re still awaiting the demographics of the Class of 2030, including this year’s geographic, socioeconomic, racial, and academic profiles. However, with the publication of the 2026-2027 Common Data Set (which is a federal reporting initiative that puts all the admissions statistics for a given college’s last admission cycle in one document), all questions anyone may have about the composition of the Class of 2030 will be answered.

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