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

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

Showing 30 of 45 colleges
Colleges that report an average GPA (6) · best fit first
Salisbury UniversitySalisbury, Maryland Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,87% admitted
Average GPA3.72As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%600–670 R&W580–650 Math
ACT, middle 50%20–29
Your 3.8their average 3.72Target
Washington CollegeChestertown, Maryland Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,57% admitted
Average GPA3.87As reported by the college for 2024⁠–⁠25
SAT, middle 50%580–710 R&W560–680 Math
ACT, middle 50%27–31
Your 3.8their average 3.87Target
Loyola University MarylandBaltimore, Maryland Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,75% admitted
Average GPA3.65As reported by the college for 2024⁠–⁠25
SAT, middle 50%620–690 R&W580–680 Math
ACT, middle 50%28–32
Your 3.8their average 3.65Safety
St. Mary’s College of MarylandSt. Mary's City, Maryland Public, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,69% admitted
Average GPA3.49As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%590–690 R&W553–650 Math
ACT, middle 50%26–31
Your 3.8their average 3.49Safety
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, Maryland Private nonprofit, 4-yearVery hard to get into,6.4% admitted
Average GPA3.93As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%740–770 R&W780–800 Math
ACT, middle 50%34–36
Your 3.8their average 3.93Reach
University of Maryland College ParkCollege Park, Maryland Public, 4-yearModerate to get into,45% admitted
Average GPA4.41Weighted, as reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%690–750 R&W710–780 Math
ACT, middle 50%32–35
Your 3.8their weighted average 4.41not comparable with an unweighted GPA
More colleges in your filters (no GPA reported)
Towson UniversityTowson, Maryland Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,82% admitted
Average GPA–
SAT, middle 50%490–635 R&W460–600 Math
ACT, middle 50%19–27
University of Maryland Baltimore CountyBaltimore, Maryland Public, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,72% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%630–700 R&W610–720 Math
ACT, middle 50%25–31
Morgan State UniversityBaltimore, Maryland Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,82% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%400–520 R&W440–550 Math
ACT, middle 50%16–21
Bowie State UniversityBowie, Maryland Public, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,72% admitted
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United States Naval AcademyAnnapolis, Maryland Public, 4-yearVery hard to get into,9.3% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%610–700 R&W600–710 Math
ACT, middle 50%25–31
Frostburg State UniversityFrostburg, Maryland Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,89% admitted
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Stevenson UniversityOwings Mills, Maryland Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,79% admitted
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University of Maryland Eastern ShorePrincess Anne, Maryland Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,96% admitted
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Coppin State UniversityBaltimore, Maryland Public, 4-yearModerate to get into,46% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%460–510 R&W420–510 Math
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Mount St. Mary’s UniversityEmmitsburg, Maryland Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,74% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%543–660 R&W503–620 Math
ACT, middle 50%19–27
McDaniel CollegeWestminster, Maryland Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,78% admitted
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University of BaltimoreBaltimore, Maryland Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,79% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%370–650 R&W370–680 Math
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Hood CollegeFrederick, Maryland Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,78% admitted
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Maryland Institute College of ArtBaltimore, Maryland Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,77% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%570–670 R&W508–635 Math
ACT, middle 50%25–33
Goucher CollegeBaltimore, Maryland Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,78% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%560–680 R&W530–645 Math
ACT, middle 50%27–30
Notre Dame of Maryland UniversityBaltimore, Maryland Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,82% admitted
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Washington Adventist UniversityTakoma Park, Maryland Private nonprofit, 4-yearModerate to get into,46% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%450–580 R&W410–550 Math
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St. John’s CollegeAnnapolis, Maryland Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,55% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%680–750 R&W590–690 Math
ACT, middle 50%27–32
Capitol Technology UniversityLaurel, Maryland Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,74% admitted
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Ner Israel Rabbinical CollegeBaltimore, Maryland Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,66% admitted
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University of Maryland Global CampusAdelphi, Maryland Public, 4-yearOpen admission
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Montgomery CollegeRockville, Maryland Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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The Community College of Baltimore CountyBaltimore, Maryland Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Anne Arundel Community CollegeArnold, Maryland Public, 2-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