The Best Colleges for a 29 on the ACT

What colleges can I get into with an ACT score of 29?

With a 29 on the ACT, these are the colleges you should have a chance to get into.

CollegeSimply analyzed the most recent published freshman class ACT scores for all U.S. colleges and found 600 schools where a 29 places you within or slightly outside the middle fifty percent of admitted students. The colleges are ranked by their position on our best colleges ranking and thus represent the better schools you may be able to get into and those which have historically accepted a 29.

Is a 29 on the ACT a good score? Yes, it's very good. It places you in the top 91st percentile nationally out of the 2 million students taking the ACT this year.

For comparison purposes, a 29 on the ACT converts to a 1340 on the SAT based on the College Board / ACT concordance. Not all colleges report both SAT and ACT score admission data so you should check our comparable listings for both standardized tests to find academically similar schools.

What do these ratings mean?

College	ACT 25th	ACT 75th	Chance with 29
Pomona College 32 ACT Average Claremont, California	30	34	Reach	4%	Chance
Dartmouth College 32 ACT Average Hanover, New Hampshire	30	34	Reach	5%	Chance
University of California Berkeley 32 ACT Average Berkeley, California	30	34	Reach	8%	Chance
University of California Los Angeles 32 ACT Average Los Angeles, California	29	34	Reach	11%	Chance
Claremont McKenna College 32 ACT Average Claremont, California	30	34	Reach	5%	Chance
University of Southern California 32 ACT Average Los Angeles, California	30	34	Reach	8%	Chance
Georgetown University 32 ACT Average Washington, District Of Columbia	30	34	Reach	8%	Chance
Middlebury College 32 ACT Average Middlebury, Vermont	30	34	Reach	8%	Chance
Emory University 32 ACT Average Atlanta, Georgia	30	33	Reach	12%	Chance
Grinnell College 32 ACT Average Grinnell, Iowa	30	34	Reach	16%	Chance
Wellesley College 32 ACT Average Wellesley, Massachusetts	30	33	Reach	12%	Chance
Barnard College 32 ACT Average New York, New York	30	33	Reach	8%	Chance
Davidson College 32 ACT Average Davidson, North Carolina	30	33	Reach	11%	Chance
University of Virginia Main Campus 31 ACT Average Charlottesville, Virginia	29	33	Reach	18%	Chance
Scripps College 31 ACT Average Claremont, California	29	33	Reach	22%	Chance
Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus 32 ACT Average Atlanta, Georgia	30	34	Reach	12%	Chance
Babson College 30 ACT Average Wellesley, Massachusetts	27	32	Avg -	24%	Chance
Boston University 30 ACT Average Boston, Massachusetts	29	32	Reach	19%	Chance
University of Michigan 32 ACT Average Ann Arbor, Michigan	30	33	Reach	15%	Chance
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art 31 ACT Average New York, New York	28	34	Avg -	9%	Chance
New York University 31 ACT Average New York, New York	29	33	Reach	19%	Chance
Vassar College 32 ACT Average Poughkeepsie, New York	30	33	Reach	13%	Chance
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 30 ACT Average Chapel Hill, North Carolina	28	33	Avg -	20%	Chance
University of California San Diego 30 ACT Average La Jolla, California	27	33	Avg -	30%	Chance
Brandeis University 31 ACT Average Waltham, Massachusetts	29	33	Reach	23%	Chance
University of Rochester 31 ACT Average Rochester, New York	29	33	Reach	23%	Chance
Kenyon College 31 ACT Average Gambier, Ohio	29	33	Reach	23%	Chance
Oberlin College 30 ACT Average Oberlin, Ohio	28	33	Avg -	29%	Chance
Bryn Mawr College 31 ACT Average Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania	29	33	Reach	26%	Chance
Lehigh University 30 ACT Average Bethlehem, Pennsylvania	29	32	Reach	19%	Chance
Villanova University 32 ACT Average Villanova, Pennsylvania	30	33	Reach	22%	Chance
College of William and Mary 31 ACT Average Williamsburg, Virginia	29	33	Reach	25%	Chance
University of California Irvine 28 ACT Average Irvine, California	25	32	Avg +	41%	Chance
University of California Santa Barbara 30 ACT Average Santa Barbara, California	28	33	Avg -	28%	Chance
Trinity College 30 ACT Average Hartford, Connecticut	28	32	Avg -	28%	Chance
Skidmore College 29 ACT Average Saratoga Springs, New York	27	31	Avg -	25%	Chance
United States Military Academy 26 ACT Average West Point, New York	23	28	Good	21%	Chance
Case Western Reserve University 32 ACT Average Cleveland, Ohio	30	33	Reach	20%	Chance
Reed College 32 ACT Average Portland, Oregon	30	33	Reach	22%	Chance
Bucknell University 30 ACT Average Lewisburg, Pennsylvania	28	31	Avg -	31%	Chance
Lafayette College 30 ACT Average Easton, Pennsylvania	28	31	Avg -	31%	Chance
Rhode Island School of Design 28 ACT Average Providence, Rhode Island	25	31	Avg +	36%	Chance
The University of Texas at Austin 30 ACT Average Austin, Texas	26	33	Avg -	36%	Chance
University of Richmond 30 ACT Average University of Richmond, Virginia	29	32	Reach	26%	Chance
University of Miami 30 ACT Average Coral Gables, Florida	28	32	Avg -	30%	Chance
Macalester College 30 ACT Average Saint Paul, Minnesota	29	32	Reach	33%	Chance
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 30 ACT Average Troy, New York	28	32	Avg -	37%	Chance
Trinity University 30 ACT Average San Antonio, Texas	27	32	Avg -	38%	Chance
Soka University of America 29 ACT Average Aliso Viejo, California	27	31	Avg -	37%	Chance
University of California Davis 28 ACT Average Davis, California	25	32	Avg +	47%	Chance

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