in 2021, and 20% qualified to receive Pell Grants. The median family income of Williams students is $185,800, the third-highest in Massachusetts, with 55% of students coming from the top 10% highest-earning families and 20% from the bottom 60%. Williams has a 97% freshman retention rate and an 86% four-year graduation rate. 90% of first-years enrolled in the Class of 2021 graduated in the top tenth of their high school graduating class, and their inter-quartile range on the new SAT was 720–770 on Evidence-Based Reading and Writing, and 740–790 on Math. The inter-quartile range on the ACT was 33–35.
=== Faculty ===
Notable former and present faculty include:
Colin Adams, mathematics professor and knot theorist, 2003 recipient of the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teachers
Andrea Barrett, National Book Award winning author and MacArthur Fellow
Gene H. Bell-Villada, fiction writer, critic of Latin American literature, and historian of aesthetics
Olga Beaver, professor of mathematics
Robert Huntley Bell, …
