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 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
- 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
- Dominican University of California — San Rafael, CA · 3.30 avg GPA
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick — New Brunswick, NJ · 3.30 avg GPA
- The College of New Jersey — Ewing, NJ · 3.60 avg GPA
- University of San Francisco — San Francisco, CA · 3.62 avg GPA
- University of Georgia — Athens, GA · 2.90 avg GPA
- University of Connecticut — Storrs, CT · 3.10 avg GPA
- Elon University — Elon, NC · 3.50 avg GPA
- Brigham Young University — Provo, UT · 3.30 avg GPA
Target
Schools where the average admitted student is right around 3.8 GPA. These are realistic, competitive picks.
- 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
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
- Franklin W Olin College of Engineering — Needham, MA · 3.95 avg GPA
- Stanford University — Stanford, CA · 3.96 avg GPA
- Harvey Mudd College — Claremont, CA · 3.95 avg GPA
- Cornell University — Ithaca, NY · 4.05 avg GPA
- Harvard University — Cambridge, MA · 4.20 avg GPA
- Columbia University in the City of New York — New York, NY · 4.12 avg GPA
- Claremont McKenna College — Claremont, CA · 3.95 avg GPA
- Yale University — New Haven, CT · 4.14 avg GPA
- University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame, IN · 4.06 avg GPA
- Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus — Atlanta, GA · 4.07 avg GPA
- Boston College — Chestnut Hill, MA · 4.00 avg GPA
- Duke University — Durham, NC · 4.13 avg GPA
- Dartmouth College — Hanover, NH · 4.10 avg GPA
- Brown University — Providence, RI · 4.00 avg GPA
By state
Colleges That Accept a 3.8 GPA on PickACampus
