{"id":4771,"date":"2024-07-23T11:55:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T15:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/?page_id=4771"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:33:50","slug":"student-profile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/student-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrollment Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Bates Mission<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 1855, Bates College has been dedicated to the emancipating potential of the liberal arts. Bates educates the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community. With ardor and devotion \u2014 <em>Amore ac Studio<\/em> \u2014 we engage the transformative power of our differences, cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action. Preparing leaders sustained by a love of learning and&nbsp;a commitment to responsible stewardship of the wider world, Bates is a college for coming times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Class of 2029 Enrollment Profile<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Class size\u00a0<strong>496<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Admission rate <strong>15%<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yield rate <strong>34%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Financial Aid<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Total grant aid <b>$13 million<\/b><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Portion of the class receiving Bates grant aid <strong>44%<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Portion of the class receiving Pell Grants <strong>11%<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Average need-based grant <strong>$58,518<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Home Geography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Middle Atlantic <strong>21% <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Midwest <strong>6% <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New England <strong>42% <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Southeast <strong>5% <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Southwest and West <strong>17% <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Outside of the U.S. <strong>9%<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Number of countries represented (other than the U.S.) <strong>26<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Number of U.S. states represented <strong>45 + Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Demographics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Female-identified <strong>51% <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Male-identified <strong>49% <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>U.S. students of color <strong>23% <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>First generation to college <strong>11%<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Non-U.S. citizens <strong>8%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Public\/charter high school<strong> 51% <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Independent\/private high school <strong>49% <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Testing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Bates has been a national leader in the test-optional movement for three decades. In October 1984, the Bates faculty voted to make standardized testing optional for admission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For those who submitted testing, the <em>middle 50%<\/em> had score ranges of:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>SAT Evidence Based Reading and Writing <strong>710-760<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SAT Math <strong>720-750<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ACT Composite <strong>32-34<\/strong> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Statistics are accurate as of September 9, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates Mission Since 1855, Bates College has been dedicated to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13739,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-4771","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4771"}],"version-history":[{"count":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17962,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4771\/revisions\/17962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}