Find Colleges for Your GPA

Find target, reach, and safety schools based on your GPA, with acceptance rates and test score data for thousands of colleges.

Where your 3.4 fits: Safety, Target or Reach, from each college's reported average GPA and acceptance rate. A guide, not a prediction.

Colleges in ConnecticutEvery college we list in Connecticut, with its average GPA and test scores where it reports them.

Showing 28 of 28 colleges
Colleges that report an average GPA (4) · best fit first
University of Saint JosephWest Hartford, Connecticut Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,79% admitted
Average GPA3.41As reported by the college for 2024⁠–⁠25
SAT, middle 50%440–610 R&W410–560 Math
ACT, middle 50%–
Your 3.4their average 3.41Target
Central Connecticut State UniversityNew Britain, Connecticut Public, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,73% admitted
Average GPA3.15As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%490–600 R&W470–590 Math
ACT, middle 50%–
Your 3.4their average 3.15Safety
Albertus Magnus CollegeNew Haven, Connecticut Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,59% admitted
Average GPA3.11As reported by the college for 2024⁠–⁠25
SAT, middle 50%–
ACT, middle 50%–
Your 3.4their average 3.11Safety
Quinnipiac UniversityHamden, Connecticut Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,72% admitted
Average GPA3.60As reported by the college for 2023⁠–⁠24
SAT, middle 50%580–660 R&W570–660 Math
ACT, middle 50%25–30
Your 3.4their average 3.60Reach
More colleges in your filters (no GPA reported)
University of ConnecticutStorrs, Connecticut Public, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,52% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%610–710 R&W600–730 Math
ACT, middle 50%28–33
Southern Connecticut State UniversityNew Haven, Connecticut Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,91% admitted
Average GPA–
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Sacred Heart UniversityFairfield, Connecticut Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,65% admitted
Average GPA–
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Yale UniversityNew Haven, Connecticut Private nonprofit, 4-yearVery hard to get into,3.9% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%730–780 R&W740–790 Math
ACT, middle 50%33–35
Fairfield UniversityFairfield, Connecticut Private nonprofit, 4-yearModerate to get into,33% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%630–700 R&W630–690 Math
ACT, middle 50%29–32
University of New HavenWest Haven, Connecticut Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,60% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%540–645 R&W520–620 Math
ACT, middle 50%–
University of HartfordWest Hartford, Connecticut Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,96% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%570–660 R&W550–650 Math
ACT, middle 50%24–30
Eastern Connecticut State UniversityWillimantic, Connecticut Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,83% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%540–650 R&W530–610 Math
ACT, middle 50%–
Wesleyan UniversityMiddletown, Connecticut Private nonprofit, 4-yearHard to get into,16% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%705–760 R&W710–780 Math
ACT, middle 50%33–35
Western Connecticut State UniversityDanbury, Connecticut Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,87% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%510–580 R&W530–590 Math
ACT, middle 50%–
University of Connecticut StamfordStamford, Connecticut Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,83% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%470–630 R&W460–630 Math
ACT, middle 50%25–32
Trinity CollegeHartford, Connecticut Private nonprofit, 4-yearModerate to get into,29% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%658–740 R&W640–730 Math
ACT, middle 50%30–34
Connecticut CollegeNew London, Connecticut Private nonprofit, 4-yearModerate to get into,37% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%690–760 R&W660–740 Math
ACT, middle 50%30–33
University of BridgeportBridgeport, Connecticut Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,83% admitted
Average GPA–
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University of Connecticut Hartford CampusHartford, Connecticut Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,88% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%470–610 R&W460–610 Math
ACT, middle 50%21–27
United States Coast Guard AcademyNew London, Connecticut Public, 4-yearHard to get into,22% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%620–700 R&W620–700 Math
ACT, middle 50%27–32
University of Connecticut Waterbury CampusWaterbury, Connecticut Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,87% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%480–600 R&W430–600 Math
ACT, middle 50%–
University of Connecticut Avery PointGroton, Connecticut Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,88% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%490–610 R&W470–580 Math
ACT, middle 50%–
Mitchell CollegeNew London, Connecticut Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,95% admitted
Average GPA–
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Connecticut State Community CollegeNew Britain, Connecticut Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Post UniversityWaterbury, Connecticut Private for-profit, 4-yearOpen admission
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Goodwin UniversityEast Hartford, Connecticut Private nonprofit, 4-yearOpen admission
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Charter Oak State CollegeNew Britain, Connecticut Public, 4-yearOpen admission
Average GPA–
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Holy Apostles College and SeminaryCromwell, Connecticut Private nonprofit, 4-yearOpen admission
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How to read the figures

Example: how a college appears in the list
University of MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan Public, 4-yearHard to get into,16% admitted
Average GPA3.90As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%680–750 R&W680–780 Math
ACT, middle 50%31–34
  • How hard it is to get in: the share of first-year applicants the college admitted for fall 2024. Very hard is under 10%, Hard 10–24%, Moderate 25–49%, Fairly easy 50–74% and Easy 75% or more. Open admission colleges accept everyone, so they have no rate.
  • Average GPA: the average high school GPA of the college's first-year students, from the college's own yearly report (its Common Data Set), with the year and, when the college says, whether it's weighted. Colleges calculate GPA in different ways, so use it as a rough guide, not a cutoff.
  • Safety, Target and Reach: with your GPA in the box, where it fits at each college that reports an average GPA. Your GPA is compared with the college's average (0.15 or more above it, close to it, or below it), and the acceptance rate decides how much that counts: a college that admits under 15% of applicants is a reach for everyone. Colleges that don't report an average get no label: we never estimate one.
  • SAT: the middle 50% of scores of first-year students who sent them, for reading and writing (R&W) and math. A quarter scored below the range and a quarter above it.
  • ACT: the middle 50% of overall ACT scores, read the same way.

A dash means the college didn't report that figure.

Where the data comes from

FigureSourceData year
Acceptance rate, SAT and ACT rangesThe U.S. Department of Education's yearly college surveyFall 2024
Average high school GPA (268 colleges)Each college's own yearly report (Common Data Set)2023–24 to 2025–26
Average SAT for the SAT filter and sortCollege Scorecard, U.S. Department of EducationLatest available

Each college's page also has its enrollment, net price, admission factors and policies on AP and dual credit from the same survey, and gives the year of every figure. Admission policies change every year, so check anything important with the college's admissions office.

Sources

Reviewed by the GPA Calculator team · Updated October 2026

  1. IPEDS: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data SystemU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
  2. College Scorecard dataU.S. Department of Education (June 10, 2026 release)
  3. Common Data Set InitiativeThe standard format colleges use to publish their own admissions data