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 GPA fits: Safety, Target or Reach, from each college's reported average GPA and acceptance rate. A guide, not a prediction.
Showing 30 of 3,085 colleges
Central Arizona CollegeCoolidge, Arizona Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Holmes Community CollegeGoodman, Mississippi Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Community College of VermontMontpelier, Vermont Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Kansas City Kansas Community CollegeKansas City, Kansas Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Roane State Community CollegeHarriman, Tennessee Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Central Lakes College BrainerdBrainerd, Minnesota Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Tompkins Cortland Community CollegeDryden, New York Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Iowa Central Community CollegeFort Dodge, Iowa Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Catawba Valley Community CollegeHickory, North Carolina Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Owensboro Community and Technical CollegeOwensboro, Kentucky Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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South Puget Sound Community CollegeOlympia, Washington Public, 4-yearOpen admission
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Heartland Community CollegeNormal, Illinois Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Napa Valley CollegeNapa, California Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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College of MarinKentfield, California Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Alamance Community CollegeGraham, North Carolina Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Northeast Iowa Community CollegeCalmar, Iowa Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Porterville CollegePorterville, California Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Passaic County Community CollegePaterson, New Jersey Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Ana G. Mendez UniversityOrlando, Florida Private nonprofit, 4-yearOpen admission
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York Technical CollegeRock Hill, South Carolina Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Central Maine Community CollegeAuburn, Maine Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Jones County Junior CollegeEllisville, Mississippi Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Northwest Florida State CollegeNiceville, Florida Public, 4-yearOpen admission
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Northern Essex Community CollegeHaverhill, Massachusetts Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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College of the RedwoodsEureka, California Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Lamar State College Port ArthurPort Arthur, Texas Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Northwest Shoals Community CollegeMuscle Shoals, Alabama Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Park UniversityParkville, Missouri Private nonprofit, 4-yearOpen admission
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Edison State Community CollegePiqua, Ohio Public, 4-yearOpen admission
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Mohave Community CollegeKingman, Arizona 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
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  • 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