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 North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, NC · 25 avg ACT
- The University of Texas at San Antonio — San Antonio, TX · 22 avg ACT
- University of Wisconsin-Madison — Madison, WI · 29 avg ACT
- Sewanee: The University of the South — Sewanee, TN · 28 avg ACT
- Ohio State University-Main Campus — Columbus, OH · 29 avg ACT
- Indiana University-Bloomington — Bloomington, IN · 29 avg ACT
- Michigan State University — East Lansing, MI · 26 avg ACT
- Texas A&M University-College Station — College Station, TX · 28 avg ACT
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University — Blacksburg, VA · 29 avg ACT
- Florida State University — Tallahassee, FL · 28 avg ACT
- Iowa State University — Ames, IA · 25 avg ACT
- University of Colorado Boulder — Boulder, CO · 28 avg ACT
- Brigham Young University — Provo, UT · 29 avg ACT
- Cornell College — Mount Vernon, IA · 27 avg ACT
- Baylor University — Waco, TX · 29 avg ACT
Target
Schools where the average admitted student is right around 30 ACT. These are realistic, competitive picks.
- University of Florida — Gainesville, FL · 31 avg ACT
- The University of Texas at Austin — Austin, TX · 30 avg ACT
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick — New Brunswick, NJ · 30 avg ACT
- Purdue University-Main Campus — West Lafayette, IN · 30 avg ACT
- University of Georgia — Athens, GA · 31 avg ACT
- University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus — Pittsburgh, PA · 31 avg ACT
- Clemson University — Clemson, SC · 30 avg ACT
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities — Minneapolis, MN · 30 avg ACT
- North Carolina State University at Raleigh — Raleigh, NC · 30 avg ACT
- Syracuse University — Syracuse, NY · 30 avg ACT
- University of Connecticut — Storrs, CT · 30 avg ACT
- St Lawrence University — Canton, NY · 31 avg ACT
- Wheaton College (Massachusetts) — Norton, MA · 30 avg ACT
- University of Vermont — Burlington, VT · 31 avg ACT
- Rochester Institute of Technology — Rochester, NY · 31 avg ACT
Reach
Schools where the average admitted student is above 30 ACT. Possible, but you would be applying from below the median.
- Princeton University — Princeton, NJ · 34 avg ACT
- Yale University — New Haven, CT · 34 avg ACT
- University of Chicago — Chicago, IL · 34 avg ACT
- University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, PA · 34 avg ACT
- Duke University — Durham, NC · 34 avg ACT
- Cornell University — Ithaca, NY · 34 avg ACT
- Brown University — Providence, RI · 34 avg ACT
- Dartmouth College — Hanover, NH · 34 avg ACT
- University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame, IN · 34 avg ACT
- Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, PA · 34 avg ACT
- Washington University in St Louis — St. Louis, MO · 34 avg ACT
- Georgetown University — Washington, DC · 34 avg ACT
- Emory University — Atlanta, GA · 33 avg ACT
- University of Virginia-Main Campus — Charlottesville, VA · 34 avg ACT
- University of Southern California — Los Angeles, CA · 34 avg ACT
By state
Colleges That Accept a 30 ACT on PickACampus
