Colleges That Accept a 3.7 GPA
A 3.7 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 3.7 GPA. You are above their typical applicant.
- Providence College — Providence, RI · 3.54 avg GPA
- Massachusetts Maritime Academy — Buzzards Bay, MA · 3.36 avg GPA
- Wabash College — Crawfordsville, IN · 3.52 avg GPA
- Siena College — Loudonville, NY · 3.53 avg GPA
- San Jose State University — San Jose, CA · 3.50 avg GPA
- Immaculata University — Immaculata, PA · 3.42 avg GPA
- St. John Fisher University — Rochester, NY · 3.52 avg GPA
- Ramapo College of New Jersey — Mahwah, NJ · 3.52 avg GPA
- Temple University — Philadelphia, PA · 3.42 avg GPA
- Augustana College — Rock Island, IL · 3.40 avg GPA
- Widener University — Chester, PA · 3.52 avg GPA
- Rollins College — Winter Park, FL · 3.50 avg GPA
- Lawrence University — Appleton, WI · 3.47 avg GPA
- Western New England University — Springfield, MA · 3.52 avg GPA
- DeSales University — Center Valley, PA · 3.42 avg GPA
Target
Schools where the average admitted student is right around 3.7 GPA. These are realistic, competitive picks.
- Santa Clara University — Santa Clara, CA · 3.72 avg GPA
- Stevens Institute of Technology — Hoboken, NJ · 3.83 avg GPA
- University of Southern California — Los Angeles, CA · 3.85 avg GPA
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — Troy, NY · 3.80 avg GPA
- Bucknell University — Lewisburg, PA · 3.58 avg GPA
- Colorado School of Mines — Golden, CO · 3.85 avg GPA
- Lafayette College — Easton, PA · 3.56 avg GPA
- Colgate University — Hamilton, NY · 3.85 avg GPA
- Case Western Reserve University — Cleveland, OH · 3.78 avg GPA
- Davidson College — Davidson, NC · 3.85 avg GPA
- Fairfield University — Fairfield, CT · 3.71 avg GPA
- New York University — New York, NY · 3.81 avg GPA
- Gonzaga University — Spokane, WA · 3.73 avg GPA
- Pepperdine University — Malibu, CA · 3.65 avg GPA
- University of Washington-Seattle Campus — Seattle, WA · 3.84 avg GPA
Reach
Schools where the average admitted student is above 3.7 GPA. Possible, but you would be applying from below the median.
- Franklin W Olin College of Engineering — Needham, MA · 3.90 avg GPA
- Stanford University — Stanford, CA · 3.94 avg GPA
- University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, PA · 3.90 avg GPA
- Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, PA · 3.89 avg GPA
- Princeton University — Princeton, NJ · 3.96 avg GPA
- Villanova University — Villanova, PA · 3.87 avg GPA
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — Worcester, MA · 3.90 avg GPA
- University of California-Berkeley — Berkeley, CA · 3.90 avg GPA
- Vanderbilt University — Nashville, TN · 3.90 avg GPA
- Johns Hopkins University — Baltimore, MD · 3.93 avg GPA
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology — Terre Haute, IN · 3.91 avg GPA
- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor — Ann Arbor, MI · 3.90 avg GPA
- University of California-Los Angeles — Los Angeles, CA · 3.94 avg GPA
- Boston University — Boston, MA · 3.86 avg GPA
- University of California-San Diego — La Jolla, CA · 3.88 avg GPA
By state
Colleges That Accept a 3.7 GPA on PickACampus
