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

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