October 2, 2012
D3soccer.com Women's Top 25, Week 5
Through games of Sunday, September 30, 2012
| # | School (1st Pl. Votes) | Record | Pts. | Prev. |
| 1 | Emory (13) | 7-0-2 | 610 | 1 |
| 2 | Trinity (Texas) (11) | 8-0-1 | 601 | 2 |
| 3 | Messiah | 8-1-1 | 568 | 3 |
| 4 | Hardin-Simmons | 6-0-1 | 534 | 4 |
| 5 | Ithaca (1) | 10-0-0 | 526 | 8 |
| 6 | Virginia Wesleyan | 10-0-1 | 457 | 9 |
| 7 | Lynchburg | 9-0-2 | 451 | 6 |
| 8 | Middlebury | 6-0-1 | 433 | 10 |
| 9 | Amherst | 6-0-1 | 416 | 11 |
| 10 | Centre | 9-0-0 | 387 | 12 |
| 11 | Wheaton (Ill.) | 9-2-0 | 355 | 5 |
| 12 | Washington U. | 9-1-0 | 354 | 13 |
| 13 | TCNJ | 9-1-0 | 274 | 16 |
| 14 | William Smith | 7-2-1 | 264 | 7 |
| 15 | Wheaton (Mass.) | 9-0-2 | 257 | 17 |
| 16 | Aurora | 11-0-1 | 242 | — |
| 17 | Montclair State | 10-0-1 | 229 | 19 |
| 18 | Johns Hopkins | 7-2-1 | 214 | 15 |
| 19 | Brandeis | 9-1-0 | 175 | 18 |
| 20 | Ohio Northern | 6-0-3 | 144 | 21 |
| 21 | Wartburg | 7-1-2 | 143 | 20 |
| 22 | Bowdoin | 6-1-0 | 114 | 22 |
| 23 | Union | 8-1-0 | 96 | 23 |
| 24 | Misericordia | 8-1-1 | 88 | 24 |
| 25 | UW-Oshkosh | 7-1-2 | 48 | 14 |
Dropped out: No. 25 Alma
Receiving Votes: Kean 26, Grove City 24, Thomas More 14, Mass-Boston 10, Cal Lutheran 9, Linfield 8, Alma 6, Augsburg 6, Augustana 6, New Paltz State 5, Washington and Lee 5, Calvin 3, Cortland State 3, Gordon 3, Haverford 3, St. Vincent 3, Carnegie Mellon 2, Case Western Reserve 2, Rowan 2, Hamilton 1, Mary Washington 1, RPI 1, Richard Stockton 1, Stevens 1
The D3soccer.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly.
