Editing College of William & Mary (section)

===Admissions and tuition===
{{Infobox U.S. college admissions
|year              = 2023
|admit rate        = 32.7%
|admit rate change = -4.2
|yield rate        = 28.2%
|yield rate change = -0.4
|test optional     = yes
|SAT Total         = 1365–1510<br />(among 45% of [[freshman|FTFs]])
|SAT Total change  = 
|ACT               = 32–34<br />(among 17% of [[freshman|FTFs]])
|ACT change        = 
|GPA              = 4.4
|float             = right
|ref               = <ref name="FallEnrollmentReport">{{cite web |url=https://www.wm.edu/offices/it/services/ir/university_data/cds/ |title=Common Data Set |publisher=William & Mary Institutional Data |access-date=September 17, 2024 }}</ref>
}}

William & Mary enrolled 7,063 undergraduate and 2,755 postgraduate students in Fall 2024.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250214200455/https://www.wm.edu/offices/it/services/ir/university_data/cds/cds-2024-2025_b1.pdf</ref> In 2018, women made up 57.6% of the undergraduate and 50.7% of the graduate student bodies.<ref name="CDS-B"/>

Admission to W&M is considered "most selective" according to ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]''.<ref name="colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com">{{Cite web|url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/items/3705|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216194319/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/items/3705|url-status=dead|title=College of William and Mary – Best College – Education – US News<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=February 16, 2009|access-date=January 28, 2020}}</ref> For the undergraduate class entering fall 2024, William & Mary received 17,789 applications and accepted 6,063, or 34.0%. Of accepted applications, 1,614 enrolled, a yield rate of 26.6%. Of all [[Matriculation|matriculating]] students, the average high school GPA is 4.4. The [[interquartile range]] for total [[SAT]] scores was 1400–1530, while the range for [[ACT (test)|ACT]] scores was 32–34.<ref>https://www.wm.edu/offices/it/services/ir/university_data/cds/cds-2024-2025_c.pdf</ref> 

Undergraduate tuition for 2024–2025 was $18,709 for Virginia residents and $43,442 for out-of-state students.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tuition & Fees |url=https://www.wm.edu/admission/tuition/ |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=William & Mary |language=en}}</ref> W&M granted over $20.9 million in need-based scholarships in 2014–2015 to 1,734 undergraduates (27.5% of the undergraduate student body); 37% of the student body received loans, and average student indebtedness was $26,017.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wm.edu/offices/ir/documents/cds/cds1516.xls |title=Common Data Set 2015–2016, Part H |publisher=Office of Institutional Research, College of William & Mary |access-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820031504/https://www.wm.edu/offices/ir/documents/cds/cds1516.xls |archive-date=August 20, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Research of William & Mary's student body published in 2016 and 2017 showed students hailed overwhelmingly from wealthy family backgrounds, even as compared to other elite public institutions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/rich-kids/|title=New Data Reveals, For First Time, Each Colleges' Share of Rich Kids|work=New America|last=Burd|first=Stephen|date=April 18, 2017|access-date=April 24, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://static.newamerica.org/attachments/12813-undermining-pell-volume-iii/Undermining-Pell-III-3.15bba9018bb54ad48f850f6f3a62a9fc.pdf|page=23|title=Undermining Pell: Volume III|work=New America|last=Burd|first=Stephen|date=March 2016|access-date=April 24, 2021}}</ref> The college is [[need-blind]] for domestic applicants.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wm.edu/admission/financialaid/|title=Financial Aid|publisher=College of William and Mary|access-date=January 3, 2021|archive-date=December 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222145338/https://www.wm.edu/admission/financialaid/|url-status=live}}</ref>