Colleges That Accept a 32 ACT
A 32 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 32 ACT. You are above their typical applicant.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, NC · 25 avg ACT
- University of Florida — Gainesville, FL · 31 avg ACT
- The University of Texas at Austin — Austin, TX · 30 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
- 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
- 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
- University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus — Pittsburgh, PA · 31 avg ACT
Target
Schools where the average admitted student is right around 32 ACT. These are realistic, competitive picks.
- Emory University — Atlanta, GA · 33 avg ACT
- Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus — Atlanta, GA · 32 avg ACT
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — Champaign, IL · 32 avg ACT
- Boston University — Boston, MA · 33 avg ACT
- University of Maryland-College Park — College Park, MD · 32 avg ACT
- University of Rochester — Rochester, NY · 33 avg ACT
- Lehigh University — Bethlehem, PA · 32 avg ACT
- William & Mary — Williamsburg, VA · 33 avg ACT
- Tulane University of Louisiana — New Orleans, LA · 32 avg ACT
- University of Miami — Coral Gables, FL · 32 avg ACT
- Southern Methodist University — Dallas, TX · 33 avg ACT
- Villanova University — Villanova, PA · 33 avg ACT
- George Washington University — Washington, DC · 32 avg ACT
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — Troy, NY · 33 avg ACT
- Stevens Institute of Technology — Hoboken, NJ · 33 avg ACT
Reach
Schools where the average admitted student is above 32 ACT. Possible, but you would be applying from below the median.
- Princeton University — Princeton, NJ · 34 avg ACT
- Harvard University — Cambridge, MA · 35 avg ACT
- Stanford University — Stanford, CA · 35 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
- Northwestern University — Evanston, IL · 35 avg ACT
- Cornell University — Ithaca, NY · 34 avg ACT
- Brown University — Providence, RI · 34 avg ACT
- Dartmouth College — Hanover, NH · 34 avg ACT
- Columbia University in the City of New York — New York, NY · 35 avg ACT
- Rice University — Houston, TX · 35 avg ACT
- Vanderbilt University — Nashville, TN · 35 avg ACT
- University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame, IN · 34 avg ACT
By state
Colleges That Accept a 32 ACT on PickACampus