Colleges That Accept a 3.5 GPA
A 3.5 GPA 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 GPA, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Likely
Schools where the average admitted student is below 3.5 GPA. You are above their typical applicant.
- Dominican University of California — San Rafael, CA · 3.30 avg GPA
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick — New Brunswick, NJ · 3.30 avg GPA
- University of Georgia — Athens, GA · 2.90 avg GPA
- University of Connecticut — Storrs, CT · 3.10 avg GPA
- Brigham Young University — Provo, UT · 3.30 avg GPA
- Purdue University-Main Campus — West Lafayette, IN · 3.30 avg GPA
- Milwaukee School of Engineering — Milwaukee, WI · 3.00 avg GPA
- Pitzer College — Claremont, CA · 3.00 avg GPA
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities — Minneapolis, MN · 3.30 avg GPA
- University of Delaware — Newark, DE · 2.90 avg GPA
- Stonehill College — Easton, MA · 3.00 avg GPA
- Dickinson College — Carlisle, PA · 3.00 avg GPA
- University of Scranton — Scranton, PA · 3.30 avg GPA
- Art Center College of Design — Pasadena, CA · 3.00 avg GPA
- Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus — University Park, PA · 3.30 avg GPA
Target
Schools where the average admitted student is right around 3.5 GPA. These are realistic, competitive picks.
- University of Chicago — Chicago, IL · 3.50 avg GPA
- University of Maryland-College Park — College Park, MD · 3.50 avg GPA
- Bryant University — Smithfield, RI · 3.60 avg GPA
- University of Washington-Seattle Campus — Seattle, WA · 3.50 avg GPA
- University of Portland — Portland, OR · 3.65 avg GPA
- Loyola University Maryland — Baltimore, MD · 3.60 avg GPA
- Franklin and Marshall College — Lancaster, PA · 3.60 avg GPA
- Quinnipiac University — Hamden, CT · 3.50 avg GPA
- The College of New Jersey — Ewing, NJ · 3.60 avg GPA
- University of San Francisco — San Francisco, CA · 3.62 avg GPA
- Elon University — Elon, NC · 3.50 avg GPA
- New Jersey Institute of Technology — Newark, NJ · 3.60 avg GPA
- Marist University — Poughkeepsie, NY · 3.60 avg GPA
- University of Dayton — Dayton, OH · 3.50 avg GPA
- Illinois Institute of Technology — Chicago, IL · 3.60 avg GPA
Reach
Schools where the average admitted student is above 3.5 GPA. Possible, but you would be applying from below the median.
- Babson College — Wellesley, MA · 3.85 avg GPA
- University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, PA · 3.90 avg GPA
- Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, PA · 3.91 avg GPA
- Princeton University — Princeton, NJ · 3.90 avg GPA
- Bentley University — Waltham, MA · 3.70 avg GPA
- Georgetown University — Washington, DC · 3.93 avg GPA
- Santa Clara University — Santa Clara, CA · 3.85 avg GPA
- Stevens Institute of Technology — Hoboken, NJ · 3.85 avg GPA
- Lehigh University — Bethlehem, PA · 3.85 avg GPA
- Villanova University — Villanova, PA · 3.85 avg GPA
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — Worcester, MA · 3.88 avg GPA
- Washington and Lee University — Lexington, VA · 3.90 avg GPA
- University of Southern California — Los Angeles, CA · 3.79 avg GPA
- Vanderbilt University — Nashville, TN · 3.83 avg GPA
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — Troy, NY · 3.85 avg GPA
By state
Colleges That Accept a 3.5 GPA on PickACampus
