Grove City College

Grove City, PA · Private (nonprofit) · College town

Admission figures

Acceptance rate: 72.3%
SAT (middle 50%): 1141–1388
ACT (middle 50%): 23–31
Undergraduates: 2,216
In-state tuition: $22,570
Out-of-state tuition: $22,570
Graduation rate: 81%
Yield (admitted students who enrol): 37%; 557 of 1,493 admitted students enrolled in 2023

Yield is not a quality score. It says how often admitted students pick this college over their other offers — useful for reading how it sits against its rivals, and nothing more. It is also the most gameable number in admissions: a binding Early Decision round turns admits into enrolments by contract, so colleges with large ED intakes post high yields largely by construction. Counts are IPEDS 2023, a different collection from the admission rate above, so the two may describe different years.

Majors at Grove City College

30 undergraduate programs, from the federal field-of-study data. Choosing one changes your estimate — a capacity-constrained program is admitted far more competitively than the school-wide rate suggests.

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Grove City College does not publish admission rates by major — almost no US university does, and the federal data has no such field. We apply a documented field-level adjustment instead and label it as modelled, rather than inventing a per-major rate.

What it would actually cost

Grove City College doesn't report net price by income band in the federal data, so we have nothing reliable to show. The published out-of-state tuition is $22,570 — and that is tuition alone, before living costs and before any aid, so treat it as neither a floor nor a prediction.

Who studies here

Enrolled undergraduates, from federal reporting.

White90%
Two or more races6%
Asian2%
International students1%
Hispanic or Latino1%
Black or African American1%
American Indian or Alaska Native0%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander0%

This is context about the campus, not an input to your estimate. Since Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023), US colleges may not consider an applicant's race — so your background does not move the number, and any tool that says otherwise is describing a practice that ended in 2023. How this is calculated.

Essays for 2026–27

Always confirm against the school's own page before you write.

Grove City College is not on the Common App's member list (checked 2026-10-18), so the Common App essay does not apply here. It takes applications through its own site or another system; its own essays, below, are what count.