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.
- University of Chicago — Chicago, IL · 3.50 avg GPA
- University of Washington-Seattle Campus — Seattle, WA · 3.50 avg GPA
- University of Maryland-College Park — College Park, MD · 3.50 avg GPA
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick — New Brunswick, NJ · 3.30 avg GPA
- Purdue University-Main Campus — West Lafayette, IN · 3.30 avg GPA
- Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus — University Park, PA · 3.30 avg GPA
- University of Georgia — Athens, GA · 2.90 avg GPA
- Michigan State University — East Lansing, MI · 3.50 avg GPA
- Arizona State University Campus Immersion — Tempe, AZ · 3.55 avg GPA
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities — Minneapolis, MN · 3.30 avg GPA
- Iowa State University — Ames, IA · 3.50 avg GPA
- University of Connecticut — Storrs, CT · 3.10 avg GPA
- University of Oregon — Eugene, OR · 3.55 avg GPA
- Brigham Young University — Provo, UT · 3.30 avg GPA
- Baylor University — Waco, TX · 3.10 avg GPA
Target
Schools where the average admitted student is right around 3.7 GPA. These are realistic, competitive picks.
- Vanderbilt University — Nashville, TN · 3.83 avg GPA
- University of Southern California — Los Angeles, CA · 3.79 avg GPA
- University of Florida — Gainesville, FL · 3.70 avg GPA
- The University of Texas at Austin — Austin, TX · 3.70 avg GPA
- New York University — New York, NY · 3.70 avg GPA
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — Champaign, IL · 3.85 avg GPA
- University of Wisconsin-Madison — Madison, WI · 3.85 avg GPA
- Sewanee: The University of the South — Sewanee, TN · 3.70 avg GPA
- Ohio State University-Main Campus — Columbus, OH · 3.85 avg GPA
- Boston University — Boston, MA · 3.85 avg GPA
- Northeastern University — Boston, MA · 3.85 avg GPA
- University of Rochester — Rochester, NY · 3.85 avg GPA
- Lehigh University — Bethlehem, PA · 3.85 avg GPA
- Indiana University-Bloomington — Bloomington, IN · 3.70 avg GPA
- Texas A&M University-College Station — College Station, TX · 3.72 avg GPA
Reach
Schools where the average admitted student is above 3.7 GPA. Possible, but you would be applying from below the median.
- Princeton University — Princeton, NJ · 3.90 avg GPA
- Stanford University — Stanford, CA · 3.96 avg GPA
- Yale University — New Haven, CT · 4.14 avg GPA
- University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, PA · 3.90 avg GPA
- Duke University — Durham, NC · 4.13 avg GPA
- Johns Hopkins University — Baltimore, MD · 3.95 avg GPA
- Northwestern University — Evanston, IL · 4.10 avg GPA
- Cornell University — Ithaca, NY · 4.05 avg GPA
- Brown University — Providence, RI · 4.00 avg GPA
- Dartmouth College — Hanover, NH · 4.10 avg GPA
- Columbia University in the City of New York — New York, NY · 4.12 avg GPA
- Rice University — Houston, TX · 4.00 avg GPA
- University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame, IN · 4.06 avg GPA
- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor — Ann Arbor, MI · 3.88 avg GPA
- Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, PA · 3.91 avg GPA
By state
Colleges That Accept a 3.7 GPA on PickACampus
