A+ Schools for B Students

glrlin 2016-08-18

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If you're a good student with less-than-stellar test scores or a so-so GPA, these are the schools for you. These colleges, which have strong ratings in the 2016 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings, accept a significant number of students with nonstratospheric transcripts.

School	SAT/ACT 25th-75th percentile	Average freshman retention rate
Pepperdine University Malibu, CA	1120-1330	92%
Purdue University--West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN	1080-1330	92%
Syracuse University Syracuse, NY	1070-1280	92%
Fordham University New York, NY	1150-1350	89%
Baylor University Waco, TX	24-30	87%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ	1090-1340	92%
Clark University Worcester, MA	1108-1333	89%
Indiana University--Bloomington Bloomington, IN	1060-1290	89%
Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	23-28	91%
University of Delaware Newark, DE	1100-1300	92%
University of Massachusetts--Amherst Amherst, MA	1120-1310	89%
Miami University--Oxford Oxford, OH	25-30	90%
Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX	24-30	89%
University of Iowa Iowa City, IA	23-28	86%
Marquette University Milwaukee, WI	25-29	90%
University of Denver Denver, CO	25-30	87%
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse, NY	1090-1280	85%
University of Colorado--Boulder Boulder, CO	24-30	84%
University of San Diego San Diego, CA	1130-1320	89%
University of Vermont Burlington, VT	1080-1290	86%
Florida State University Tallahassee, FL	26-29	92%
Saint Louis University St. Louis, MO	25-30	88%
Drexel University Philadelphia, PA	1090-1300	85%
Loyola University Chicago Chicago, IL	25-29	86%
University at Buffalo--SUNY Buffalo, NY	1050-1250	88%
Auburn University Auburn, AL	24-30	90%
University of Missouri Columbia, MO	23-28	85%
University of Nebraska--Lincoln Lincoln, NE	22-28	84%
University of New Hampshire Durham, NH	1000-1200	86%
University of Oregon Eugene, OR	990-1230	86%
Iowa State University Ames, IA	21-29	87%
University of Dayton Dayton, OH	24-29	89%
University of Oklahoma Norman, OK	23-29	85%
University of San Francisco San Francisco, CA	1040-1250	87%
University of South Carolina Columbia, SC	1110-1300	88%
University of the Pacific Stockton, CA	1038-1313	85%
Clarkson University Potsdam, NY	1090-1290	88%
Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA	1040-1230	89%
Temple University Philadelphia, PA	1010-1230	88%
University of Kansas Lawrence, KS	22-28	80%
University of St. Thomas St. Paul, MN	24-29	87%
University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT	21-28	88%
DePaul University Chicago, IL	23-28	86%
Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI	25-30	83%
Seton Hall University South Orange, NJ	1040-1220	84%
Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO	22-27	85%
New School New York, NY	990-1240	83%
Arizona State University--Tempe Tempe, AZ	1020-1270	84%e