Colleges That Accept a 1300 SAT
A 1300 SAT is a safety at one school and a long shot at another, so these schools are split into likely, target and reach rather than one list. Every number is the school's own average admitted SAT, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Likely
Schools where the average admitted student is below 1300 SAT. You are above their typical applicant.
- Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences — Albany, NY · 1252 avg SAT
- University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis — Saint Louis, MO · 1131 avg SAT
- United States Merchant Marine Academy — Kings Point, NY · 1207 avg SAT
- Kettering University — Flint, MI · 1251 avg SAT
- Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia — Philadelphia, PA · 1258 avg SAT
- SUNY Maritime College — Throggs Neck, NY · 1214 avg SAT
- Quinnipiac University — Hamden, CT · 1242 avg SAT
- The College of New Jersey — Ewing, NJ · 1246 avg SAT
- Elon University — Elon, NC · 1208 avg SAT
- Saint Anselm College — Manchester, NH · 1201 avg SAT
- Ohio Northern University — Ada, OH · 1252 avg SAT
- Virginia Military Institute — Lexington, VA · 1244 avg SAT
- University of Scranton — Scranton, PA · 1237 avg SAT
- Neumont College of Computer Science — Salt Lake City, UT · 1093 avg SAT
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach — Daytona Beach, FL · 1257 avg SAT
Target
Schools where the average admitted student is right around 1300 SAT. These are realistic, competitive picks.
- MCPHS University — Boston, MA · 1269 avg SAT
- Fairfield University — Fairfield, CT · 1335 avg SAT
- Bryant University — Smithfield, RI · 1265 avg SAT
- Gonzaga University — Spokane, WA · 1335 avg SAT
- Clarkson University — Potsdam, NY · 1304 avg SAT
- University of Portland — Portland, OR · 1277 avg SAT
- Loyola University Maryland — Baltimore, MD · 1290 avg SAT
- Marquette University — Milwaukee, WI · 1310 avg SAT
- Dominican University of California — San Rafael, CA · 1290 avg SAT
- University of San Francisco — San Francisco, CA · 1295 avg SAT
- New Jersey Institute of Technology — Newark, NJ · 1337 avg SAT
- Creighton University — Omaha, NE · 1321 avg SAT
- Texas A&M University-College Station — College Station, TX · 1280 avg SAT
- Marist University — Poughkeepsie, NY · 1295 avg SAT
- University of Dayton — Dayton, OH · 1335 avg SAT
Reach
Schools where the average admitted student is above 1300 SAT. Possible, but you would be applying from below the median.
- Bentley University — Waltham, MA · 1352 avg SAT
- Santa Clara University — Santa Clara, CA · 1426 avg SAT
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology — Terre Haute, IN · 1427 avg SAT
- Bucknell University — Lewisburg, PA · 1410 avg SAT
- College of the Holy Cross — Worcester, MA · 1353 avg SAT
- Colorado School of Mines — Golden, CO · 1412 avg SAT
- Lafayette College — Easton, PA · 1424 avg SAT
- Providence College — Providence, RI · 1346 avg SAT
- Trinity College — Hartford, CT · 1415 avg SAT
- Union College — Schenectady, NY · 1395 avg SAT
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University — Blacksburg, VA · 1364 avg SAT
- Fordham University — Bronx, NY · 1418 avg SAT
- The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art — New York, NY · 1410 avg SAT
- Pepperdine University — Malibu, CA · 1384 avg SAT
- The University of Texas at Austin — Austin, TX · 1395 avg SAT
By state
Colleges That Accept a 1300 SAT on PickACampus