The Best Colleges for a 30 on the ACT

What colleges can I get into with an ACT score of 30?

With a 30 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 460 schools where a 30 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 30.

Is a 30 on the ACT a good score? Yes, it's very good. It places you in the top 93rd percentile nationally out of the 2 million students taking the ACT this year.

For comparison purposes, a 30 on the ACT converts to a 1370 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 30
Princeton University 33 ACT Average Princeton, New Jersey	31	35	Reach	3%	Chance
Duke University 33 ACT Average Durham, North Carolina	31	35	Reach	5%	Chance
Brown University 33 ACT Average Providence, Rhode Island	31	35	Reach	4%	Chance
Pomona College 32 ACT Average Claremont, California	30	34	Reach	5%	Chance
Williams College 33 ACT Average Williamstown, Massachusetts	31	35	Reach	7%	Chance
Dartmouth College 32 ACT Average Hanover, New Hampshire	30	34	Reach	6%	Chance
Columbia University in the City of New York 32 ACT Average New York, New York	31	34	Reach	4%	Chance
Cornell University 32 ACT Average Ithaca, New York	31	34	Reach	7%	Chance
Swarthmore College 32 ACT Average Swarthmore, Pennsylvania	31	34	Reach	6%	Chance
University of California Berkeley 32 ACT Average Berkeley, California	30	34	Reach	11%	Chance
University of California Los Angeles 32 ACT Average Los Angeles, California	29	34	Avg -	13%	Chance
Claremont McKenna College 32 ACT Average Claremont, California	30	34	Reach	6%	Chance
University of Southern California 32 ACT Average Los Angeles, California	30	34	Reach	10%	Chance
Georgetown University 32 ACT Average Washington, District Of Columbia	30	34	Reach	10%	Chance
Tufts University 32 ACT Average Medford, Massachusetts	31	34	Reach	8%	Chance
Carleton College 32 ACT Average Northfield, Minnesota	31	34	Reach	12%	Chance
Haverford College 32 ACT Average Haverford, Pennsylvania	31	34	Reach	11%	Chance
Middlebury College 32 ACT Average Middlebury, Vermont	30	34	Reach	11%	Chance
Emory University 32 ACT Average Atlanta, Georgia	30	33	Reach	17%	Chance
Grinnell College 32 ACT Average Grinnell, Iowa	30	34	Reach	19%	Chance
Colby College 32 ACT Average Waterville, Maine	31	33	Low	6%	Chance
Wellesley College 32 ACT Average Wellesley, Massachusetts	30	33	Reach	17%	Chance
Barnard College 32 ACT Average New York, New York	30	33	Reach	11%	Chance
Hamilton College 32 ACT Average Clinton, New York	31	33	Low	10%	Chance
Davidson College 32 ACT Average Davidson, North Carolina	30	33	Reach	15%	Chance
University of Virginia Main Campus 31 ACT Average Charlottesville, Virginia	29	33	Avg -	22%	Chance
Washington and Lee University 32 ACT Average Lexington, Virginia	31	33	Low	9%	Chance
Scripps College 31 ACT Average Claremont, California	29	33	Avg -	27%	Chance
Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus 32 ACT Average Atlanta, Georgia	30	34	Reach	15%	Chance
Babson College 30 ACT Average Wellesley, Massachusetts	27	32	Avg +	28%	Chance
Boston College 32 ACT Average Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts	31	33	Low	14%	Chance
Boston University 30 ACT Average Boston, Massachusetts	29	32	Avg -	25%	Chance
University of Michigan 32 ACT Average Ann Arbor, Michigan	30	33	Reach	21%	Chance
Colgate University 32 ACT Average Hamilton, New York	31	33	Low	12%	Chance
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art 31 ACT Average New York, New York	28	34	Avg -	11%	Chance
New York University 31 ACT Average New York, New York	29	33	Avg -	23%	Chance
Vassar College 32 ACT Average Poughkeepsie, New York	30	33	Reach	18%	Chance
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 30 ACT Average Chapel Hill, North Carolina	28	33	Avg -	24%	Chance
University of California San Diego 30 ACT Average La Jolla, California	27	33	Avg -	34%	Chance
Brandeis University 31 ACT Average Waltham, Massachusetts	29	33	Avg -	28%	Chance
University of Rochester 31 ACT Average Rochester, New York	29	33	Avg -	28%	Chance
Kenyon College 31 ACT Average Gambier, Ohio	29	33	Avg -	28%	Chance
Oberlin College 30 ACT Average Oberlin, Ohio	28	33	Avg -	34%	Chance
Bryn Mawr College 31 ACT Average Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania	29	33	Avg -	32%	Chance
Lehigh University 30 ACT Average Bethlehem, Pennsylvania	29	32	Avg -	25%	Chance
Villanova University 32 ACT Average Villanova, Pennsylvania	30	33	Reach	28%	Chance
College of William and Mary 31 ACT Average Williamsburg, Virginia	29	33	Avg -	30%	Chance
University of California Irvine 28 ACT Average Irvine, California	25	32	Avg +	44%	Chance
University of California Santa Barbara 30 ACT Average Santa Barbara, California	28	33	Avg -	33%	Chance
Trinity College 30 ACT Average Hartford, Connecticut	28	32	Avg -	34%	Chance

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