Colleges That Accept a 30 ACT
A 30 ACT 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 ACT, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Likely
Schools where the average admitted student is below 30 ACT. You are above their typical applicant.
- University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis — Saint Louis, MO · 24 avg ACT
- MCPHS University — Boston, MA · 27 avg ACT
- Providence College — Providence, RI · 29 avg ACT
- Fairfield University — Fairfield, CT · 29 avg ACT
- United States Merchant Marine Academy — Kings Point, NY · 27 avg ACT
- Bryant University — Smithfield, RI · 28 avg ACT
- Kettering University — Flint, MI · 28 avg ACT
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University — Blacksburg, VA · 29 avg ACT
- Gonzaga University — Spokane, WA · 29 avg ACT
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, NC · 25 avg ACT
- Pepperdine University — Malibu, CA · 28 avg ACT
- Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia — Philadelphia, PA · 28 avg ACT
- University of Wisconsin-Madison — Madison, WI · 29 avg ACT
- SUNY Maritime College — Throggs Neck, NY · 26 avg ACT
- Drexel University — Philadelphia, PA · 29 avg ACT
Target
Schools where the average admitted student is right around 30 ACT. These are realistic, competitive picks.
- Bentley University — Waltham, MA · 30 avg ACT
- Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences — Albany, NY · 30 avg ACT
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology — Terre Haute, IN · 31 avg ACT
- Bucknell University — Lewisburg, PA · 31 avg ACT
- College of the Holy Cross — Worcester, MA · 30 avg ACT
- Colorado School of Mines — Golden, CO · 31 avg ACT
- Trinity College — Hartford, CT · 31 avg ACT
- Union College — Schenectady, NY · 30 avg ACT
- The University of Texas at Austin — Austin, TX · 30 avg ACT
- University of Florida — Gainesville, FL · 31 avg ACT
- Syracuse University — Syracuse, NY · 30 avg ACT
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick — New Brunswick, NJ · 30 avg ACT
- Clemson University — Clemson, SC · 30 avg ACT
- University of Georgia — Athens, GA · 31 avg ACT
- University of Connecticut — Storrs, CT · 30 avg ACT
Reach
Schools where the average admitted student is above 30 ACT. Possible, but you would be applying from below the median.
- Babson College — Wellesley, MA · 32 avg ACT
- University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, PA · 34 avg ACT
- Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, PA · 34 avg ACT
- Princeton University — Princeton, NJ · 34 avg ACT
- Cornell University — Ithaca, NY · 34 avg ACT
- Georgetown University — Washington, DC · 34 avg ACT
- Claremont McKenna College — Claremont, CA · 34 avg ACT
- Yale University — New Haven, CT · 34 avg ACT
- University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame, IN · 34 avg ACT
- Santa Clara University — Santa Clara, CA · 32 avg ACT
- Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus — Atlanta, GA · 32 avg ACT
- Stevens Institute of Technology — Hoboken, NJ · 33 avg ACT
- Boston College — Chestnut Hill, MA · 34 avg ACT
- Duke University — Durham, NC · 34 avg ACT
- Lehigh University — Bethlehem, PA · 32 avg ACT
By state
Colleges That Accept a 30 ACT on PickACampus
