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

Colleges in New JerseyEvery college we list in New Jersey, with its average GPA and test scores where it reports them.

Showing 30 of 59 colleges
Colleges that report an average GPA (5) · best fit first
Montclair State UniversityMontclair, New Jersey Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,88% admitted
Average GPA3.33As reported by the college for 2024⁠–⁠25
SAT, middle 50%480–620 R&W430–590 Math
ACT, middle 50%–
Your 4.3their 4.0-scale average 3.33Safety
Rowan UniversityGlassboro, New Jersey Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,78% admitted
Average GPA3.40As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%560–660 R&W550–650 Math
ACT, middle 50%23–29
Your 4.3their 4.0-scale average 3.40Safety
Princeton UniversityPrinceton, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearVery hard to get into,4.6% admitted
Average GPA3.96As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%740–780 R&W770–800 Math
ACT, middle 50%34–35
Your 4.3their 4.0-scale average 3.96Reach
New Jersey Institute of TechnologyNewark, New Jersey Public, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,65% admitted
Average GPA3.73As reported by the college for 2024⁠–⁠25
SAT, middle 50%600–710 R&W610–750 Math
ACT, middle 50%27–34
Your 4.3their 4.0-scale average 3.73not comparable with a weighted GPA
Ramapo College of New JerseyMahwah, New Jersey Public, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,71% admitted
Average GPA3.52As reported by the college for 2024⁠–⁠25
SAT, middle 50%580–650 R&W550–650 Math
ACT, middle 50%22–30
Your 4.3their 4.0-scale average 3.52not comparable with a weighted GPA
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Rutgers University New BrunswickNew Brunswick, New Jersey Public, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,58% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%650–730 R&W660–770 Math
ACT, middle 50%28–33
Kean UniversityUnion, New Jersey Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,76% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%460–565 R&W470–585 Math
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Rutgers University NewarkNewark, New Jersey Public, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,71% admitted
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Stockton UniversityGalloway, New Jersey Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,89% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%530–620 R&W500–610 Math
ACT, middle 50%21–25
The College of New JerseyEwing, New Jersey Public, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,62% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%570–670 R&W570–670 Math
ACT, middle 50%26–31
William Paterson University of New JerseyWayne, New Jersey Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,90% admitted
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Seton Hall UniversitySouth Orange, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,73% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%620–700 R&W600–690 Math
ACT, middle 50%27–32
Fairleigh Dickinson University Metropolitan CampusTeaneck, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,91% admitted
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Stevens Institute of TechnologyHoboken, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearModerate to get into,48% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%670–735 R&W710–770 Math
ACT, middle 50%31–34
New Jersey City UniversityJersey City, New Jersey Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,98% admitted
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Rutgers University CamdenCamden, New Jersey Public, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,66% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%540–640 R&W510–660 Math
ACT, middle 50%19–25
Monmouth UniversityWest Long Branch, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,89% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%580–660 R&W560–650 Math
ACT, middle 50%24–29
Rider UniversityLawrenceville, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,79% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%550–670 R&W550–650 Math
ACT, middle 50%27–31
Saint Peter’s UniversityJersey City, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,90% admitted
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Florham CampusMadison, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,95% admitted
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Drew UniversityMadison, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,68% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%570–688 R&W533–650 Math
ACT, middle 50%24–30
Caldwell UniversityCaldwell, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,71% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%540–630 R&W590–740 Math
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Georgian Court UniversityLakewood, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,79% admitted
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Centenary UniversityHackettstown, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,83% admitted
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Bloomfield College of Montclair State UniversityBloomfield, New Jersey Public, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,70% admitted
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Saint Elizabeth UniversityMorristown, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,71% admitted
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Yeshiva Toras ChaimLakewood, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearModerate to get into,44% admitted
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Rabbinical College of AmericaMorristown, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,95% admitted
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Bais Medrash Toras ChesedLakewood, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,58% admitted
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Rabbi Jacob Joseph SchoolEdison, New Jersey Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,92% admitted
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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