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Our admissions team understands that retrieving the information you need to help your students from college websites can be difficult and time consuming. We hope you find the information here useful, convenient and timely. We invite your feedback because it is our goal to provide you with the tools you need to best serve your students. Contact your admissions counselor any time! 

Class of 2028 Profile

Dickinson is Test-Optional.

Dickinson's test-optional policy provides students with a choice regarding the submission of standardized test scores. While many colleges and universities have only recently joined the test-optional movement, Dickinson made the submission of SAT or ACT scores optional for admission in 1994. This policy was designed for students who have demonstrated strong abilities in the classroom and who do not believe their standardized test scores accurately reflect their abilities. View our Test-Optional FAQ for additional information.

Data Analytics Major

Data analytics is our newest major and is already drawing great interest from our students. This interdisciplinary program will give students the depth and breadth of knowledge, as well as the technical skills, to tackle issues as varied and as critical as climate change, the future of work, globalization, healthcare, artificial intelligence and privacy and security. 

Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet

Dickinson’s unique partnership with the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (CPYB), located just steps from our campus, has allowed us to create a certificate program with pre-professional level ballet training. And those who have already begun their training with CPYB, including the summer programs, will be considered for a half-tuition scholarship. 

We're eager to get to know your students! Here are the steps they can take:

• Sign up to  
• Email their admissions counselor 
• Register for an 
• Explore our virtual-visit options 
• Schedule an interview ( or )

We would be happy to hold a meeting for you and your students, virtually or in person, either to share information about Dickinson or to provide advice on aspects of the process such as essay writing or offer a case-study program. 

• Explore our high school juniors to help them jump-start and navigate the college search process. 
• Check Slate.org for details on your applicants—including items missing from their files and decisions after release.  
• Request a school visit, virtually or in person, by emailing counselorvisits@dickinson.edu or contact your admissions counselor.
• Access our Future College Parent Toolkit, which is meant to help guide parents (and, by extension, their students) through the college search and application process with some timely tips, pieces of advice and words of wisdom, collected from our experienced team of admissions experts. The information is not all specific to Dickinson but will hopefully be helpful no matter what colleges and universities end up at the top of the student’s list.

Our work at Dickinson and in enrollment is student-centered. If information is shared in the admissions application (an essay, additional information section, teacher letter of recommendation or counselor statement) or an interview that the student was harmed or may be in a harmful situation then it is the responsibility of the Dickinson employee to report the information to and, if required, the Childline in the state where the student resides. We want to be transparent in conveying this information so that the student as well as high school staff are aware of our reporting obligations.