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

Colleges in Rhode IslandEvery college we list in Rhode Island, with its average GPA and test scores where it reports them.

Showing 12 of 12 colleges
Colleges that report an average GPA (2) · best fit first
Rhode Island CollegeProvidence, Rhode Island Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,92% admitted
Average GPA3.19As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%450–580 R&W420–540 Math
ACT, middle 50%–
Your 3.5their average 3.19Safety
University of Rhode IslandKingston, Rhode Island Public, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,72% admitted
Average GPA3.65As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%520–650 R&W500–630 Math
ACT, middle 50%–
Your 3.5their average 3.65Reach
More colleges in your filters (no GPA reported)
Brown UniversityProvidence, Rhode Island Private nonprofit, 4-yearVery hard to get into,5.4% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%740–780 R&W770–800 Math
ACT, middle 50%34–35
Providence CollegeProvidence, Rhode Island Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,51% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%630–700 R&W620–690 Math
ACT, middle 50%29–32
Roger Williams UniversityBristol, Rhode Island Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,88% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%580–660 R&W560–650 Math
ACT, middle 50%24–29
Johnson & Wales University ProvidenceProvidence, Rhode Island Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,88% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%460–590 R&W430–570 Math
ACT, middle 50%22–27
Bryant UniversitySmithfield, Rhode Island Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,65% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%610–660 R&W580–670 Math
ACT, middle 50%27–28
Salve Regina UniversityNewport, Rhode Island Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,68% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%600–680 R&W560–650 Math
ACT, middle 50%26–29
Rhode Island School of DesignProvidence, Rhode Island Private nonprofit, 4-yearHard to get into,19% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%688–750 R&W708–780 Math
ACT, middle 50%31–34
New England Institute of TechnologyEast Greenwich, Rhode Island Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,67% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%–
ACT, middle 50%–
Community College of Rhode IslandWarwick, Rhode Island Public, 2-yearOpen admission
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%–
ACT, middle 50%–
College UnboundProvidence, Rhode Island Private nonprofit, 4-yearOpen admission
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%–
ACT, middle 50%–
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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