What colleges can you get into?
Enter your GPA and test score, and all 1,433 four-year colleges in the United States sort into reaches, targets and likelies, strongest first.
No account, no email, nothing sent anywhere: your numbers stay in this browser. You get no percentage, because nobody can honestly give you one.
How this works
Every college reports its admit rate and the SAT and ACT range of its enrolled students to the US Department of Education. Those figures, from the College Scorecard release of 2026-08-27, are what your numbers are compared against, across 1,433 colleges.
Each pile is sorted by the test scores of the colleges’ own admitted students, so the first ones you see are the strongest, not a sample. Most students have hundreds of likely admits; the order is what makes that useful rather than overwhelming.
A reach is a college where your numbers sit below what they usually admit, or where they admit so few people that no profile is safe. A target is one where you are inside the range and the application itself decides. A likely is one where your numbers clear their bar comfortably. No college admitting fewer than one in four applicants is ever called likely here, however good your numbers are.
We publish the essay prompts for 213 of these colleges, and those are the ones you can add to a list. The rest are shown anyway, because your options are not limited to what we cover.
Left out: 65 for-profit colleges, whose admissions do not turn on grades, scores or an essay, and 121 institutions with fewer than 250 undergraduates, which are mostly seminaries and conservatories whose admit rate describes a tiny specialised applicant pool rather than how hard they are to get into. Another 325 report no admit rate at all and cannot be ranked.
Grades and scores are what get an application read. They are not what decides it. Essays, recommendations, your intended major and a dozen things no calculator can see decide the rest, and at the most selective colleges they decide almost all of it.
Questions about finding colleges
- What colleges can I get into with my GPA and SAT?
- Enter both above and every four-year college in the United States that reports admissions data sorts into reaches, targets and likelies for you, strongest first. There is no single answer to the question, because 1,433 colleges have 1,433 different bars, and most students have far more realistic options than they expect.
- How many colleges does this search?
- All 1,433 four-year US colleges that report an admit rate to the federal government, not a shortlist of famous ones. Essay prompts are published here for 213 of them; the rest still appear, because your options are not limited to what one site covers.
- What counts as a reach, a target and a likely?
- A reach is a college where your numbers sit below what it usually admits, or where it admits so few applicants that no profile is safe. A target is one where you are inside the range and the application decides. A likely is one where your numbers clear its bar comfortably. No college admitting fewer than one in four applicants is called likely here, whatever your numbers are.
- Is this free, and do I need an account?
- It is free, there is no account and no email, and nothing is sent anywhere. Your GPA and test scores stay in your own browser and are used only to render the page in front of you.
- Where does the data come from?
- From the US Department of Education's College Scorecard, the public release of the admit rates and enrolled-student SAT and ACT ranges colleges report about themselves. This site uses the release of 2026-08-27.
- Does a good GPA and SAT mean I will get in?
- No. Grades and scores are what get an application read; they are not what decides it. Essays, recommendations, your intended major and a dozen things no calculator can see decide the rest, and at the most selective colleges they decide almost all of it. That is why this returns three piles rather than a percentage.