Colleges That Accept a 3.8 GPA

A 3.8 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 3.8 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 3.8 GPA. These are realistic, competitive picks.

Princeton University — Princeton, NJ · 3.90 avg GPA
University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, PA · 3.90 avg GPA
Vanderbilt University — Nashville, TN · 3.83 avg GPA
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor — Ann Arbor, MI · 3.88 avg GPA
Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, PA · 3.91 avg GPA
Georgetown University — Washington, DC · 3.93 avg GPA
Emory University — Atlanta, GA · 3.90 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
Wake Forest University — Winston-Salem, NC · 3.87 avg GPA
New York University — New York, NY · 3.70 avg GPA
Tufts University — Medford, MA · 3.93 avg GPA
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — Champaign, IL · 3.85 avg GPA
University of Wisconsin-Madison — Madison, WI · 3.85 avg GPA

Reach

Schools where the average admitted student is above 3.8 GPA. Possible, but you would be applying from below the median.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Cambridge, MA · 4.17 avg GPA
Harvard University — Cambridge, MA · 4.20 avg GPA
Stanford University — Stanford, CA · 3.96 avg GPA
Yale University — New Haven, CT · 4.14 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
University of California-Berkeley — Berkeley, CA · 4.15 avg GPA
University of California-Los Angeles — Los Angeles, CA · 4.18 avg GPA
Rice University — Houston, TX · 4.00 avg GPA
University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame, IN · 4.06 avg GPA

By state

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