The Tests to Take to Get into American Colleges

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You’ve arrived at the world’s authoritative SAT-ACT conversion tool and information resource because you realize that most colleges and universities in the United States require or recommend that students submit scores from one of two standardized tests – the SAT and the ACT – in order to be considered for admission. Standardized tests like the SAT and ACT are important to American colleges and universities because they are standardized – unlike high school grades and extracurricular activities, which will vary greatly from school to school and student to student. While there is much debate these days as to whether or not success on the SAT or ACT is a reliable predictor of how a student will perform during his or her freshman year of college, students can’t get wrapped up in the latest academic debates on the matter. For the foreseeable future most colleges will continue to judge applicants and their perceived potential based on their scores on the SAT or ACT. If you want to have the most college options, you need to take the SAT and/or ACT.

The good news is that all American colleges and universities that require submission of standardized test scores as a part of a student’s application will consider a student’s score on the SAT or ACT. Colleges look at your success on these tests as interchangeable – even though the tests assess your skills and knowledge quite differently. Thus, you need to be strategic about which tests to take and when to take them in order to ultimately submit to colleges your best scores.

Many students, depending on their particular strengths and weaknesses, will perform much better on one test or the other. Consequently, prepared students should study for both tests by purchasing and completing timed practice tests included in the latest editions of The Official SAT Study Guide and The Official ACT Prep Guide. Next, students should sign up for and take the SAT and ACT at least once each in order to gauge which test casts them in the best light.

How do the ACT and SAT Differ?

The SAT assesses students in the areas of Evidence-Based Reading & Writing (EBRW) and Math (M). There is also an optional essay in its own section. The ACT tests students in English (E), Math (M), Reading (R), and Science (S). On the ACT there is also an optional essay.

The ACT’s sections are broken down as follows:

1. English: 75 questions/45 minutes
2. Mathematics: 60 questions/60 minutes
3. Reading: 40 questions/35 minutes
4. Science: 40 questions/35 minutes
5. Optional Writing: 1 essay prompt/40 minutes

The required sections of the ACT take 2 hours and 55 minutes. If you opt to take the optional Writing (essay) section, you will add an extra 40 minutes to the end of your test. The key concepts tested on each section of the ACT are as follows:

• English: Usage/Mechanics and Rhetorical Skills
• Mathematics: Pre-Algebra and Elementary Algebra, Intermediate Algebra and Coordinate Geometry, and Plane Geometry and Triginometry
• Reading: Arts and Literature and Social Studies and Sciences
• Science: Data Representations, Research Summaries, and Conflicting Viewpoints
• Optional Writing: Ideas and Analysis, Development and Support, Organization, and Language Use and Conventions

The SAT’s five sections proceed as follows:

• Reading Test: 52 questions/65 minutes
• Writing and Language Test: 44 questions/35 minutes
• Math Test – No Calculator (Multiple Choice + Student Produced Response): 20 questions/25 minutes
• Math Test – Calculator Permitted (Multiple Choice + Student Produced Response): 38 questions/55 minutes
• Optional Essay: 1 prompt/50 minutes

The required sections of the SAT take 3 hours to complete. If you opt to take the optional Essay section, you will add an extra 50 minutes to your test-day experience.The key concepts tested on each section of the SAT are:

• Reading Test: Command of Evidence, Words in Context, and Analysis of Social Studies/Science
• Writing and Language Test: Same as Reading Test + Expression of Ideas and Standard English Conventions
• Math Test – No Calculator (Multiple Choice + Student Produced Response): Linear Equations and Systems, Quantitative Skills, and some Geometry and Trigonometry
• Math Test – Calculator Permitted (Multiple Choice + Student Produced Response): Same as first Math Test + Manipulation of Complex Equations
• Optional Essay: Must prove that you are focused, organized, and precise in your reading, analysis, and writing

How the ACT and SAT are Scored Today

On both the SAT and ACT there is a difference between raw points earned versus scaled points earned. Basically, raw points are earned for correct answers. On both tests no raw points are deducted for multiple choice questions answered incorrectly or left blank.

Yet, the testing agencies responsible for the SAT and ACT hardly make things simple because they don’t report to you your raw score (at least not directly in top-level summaries available on score reports). Instead they put your raw scores in the oven – they cook them! Instead of calling your final scores on these tests your cooked scores, they call them your scaled scores. Receiving cooked scores probably would rub people the wrong way. Go figure. Yet, how the SAT and ACT cook their scores is completely different. The SAT inflates and the ACT deflates.

The lowest score one can earn on each of the three sections of the SAT is 200. To earn a 200 on one section of the SAT would mean that you answered no questions right and a lot of questions wrong. Thus, 200 is a very rare score to get on any section of the SAT. A 200 still sounds better than 0 to the man on the street, so congrats if you get a 200. Thus, the lowest potential combined score one can get on the two main sections of the SAT is a 400.

Alternatively, if you get every SAT question right (or nearly every question on some test administration dates), you can earn as high as 800 points on each section. Thus, the highest combined score one can earn on the SAT is 1600. Now that’s hot stuff!

The average scores for Americans taking the test come in at just above or below 500 per section depending on the year or exact test date of administration.

Meanwhile, the ACT has a scaled score that looks completely different, first because there are more sections, and second because when you go out to lunch with someone you don’t just want to rattle off the sum of your section scores like you would with the SAT. Remember, if somebody earned a 630 Evidence-Based Reading & Writing and 700 Math on the SAT, they would most likely be overheard saying something like, “So, guess what? I just found out that I got a 1330 on the SAT! Can you believe how awesome I am?” When referring colloquially to your greatness as it relates to your ACT score, you speak a bit differently. You share your average score of all the sections that make up the test. This score is referred to as your composite score. The highest composite score one can earn on the ACT is a 36, while the lowest composite score one can theoretically get on the ACT is a 1. So, again, assuming you are out with a friend after checking your scores online, you would say something like, “Oh my gosh! I just logged in and I got a 30!” For the student in this example to get a 30 means that he or she got section scores that averaged out to 30. So, for instance, he or she may have gotten a 29 on the English section a 33 on the Math section, a 28 on the Reading section, and a 31 on the Science section.

29+33+28+31 = 121 / 4 = 30.25

Please note from the example above that ACT will only round up to the next highest round number starting at X.50; therefore, a score of 30.25 is reported as a 30.

What About My Essay/Writing Score?

Note that in the above example we have not mentioned the student’s ACT Writing score, which on the ACT is synonymous with a test taker’s essay score. This is because a student’s Writing (essay) score does not affect his or her composite score in any way. Similarly, on the SAT, a student’s Essay score does not affect his or her composite SAT score in any way. Yet, just because your essays don’t get factored into your composite scores does not mean that they are unimportant.

In 2020 colleges (that care, see more below) are able to compare better than ever before one’s essay-writing score on the ACT to one’s essay-writing score on the SAT. Those students applying for Fall 2021 college and university admission (and later) in the United States are in one of two groups: those who only are concerned with how they do on the required parts of the SAT (EBRW + M) and ACT (E + M + R + S) and those who are concerned with everything we have dissected up to this point AND their optional essay scores. This is because only a handful of U.S. colleges and universities (as of Spring 2020) require or recommend students to take the optional Writing section of the ACT and Essay section of the SAT, but if a college requires or recommends that you submit such scores, you can bet they want them for a reason.

Why do a few colleges still care how you can write on a standardized test? The answer is that these colleges want to assess your writing skills on either the SAT or ACT in order to compare how you performed on these tests to the quality of your college application essay(s). The reason colleges want to compare how you write on a test and on the application is because they want to ensure that you in fact are the author of your application essay(s).

The ACT has two readers review your essays, and each reader gives your essay a score between 1 and 6 for four distinct domains: Ideas and Analysis, Development and Support, Organization, and Language Use and Conventions. Thus, your Writing (essay) score on the ACT is the average of these scores. The full ACT essay-scoring rubric is available here.

While the SAT, just like the ACT, has two readers review your essay, these two readers assign your essay three distinct scores – for Reading, Analysis, and Writing – ranging from 1 to 4. The two scores given to each of these three dimensions are then added. Thus, you will receive three scores for your essay that individually will range from 2 to 8 and cumulatively range from 6 to 24. The entire SAT scoring rubric is available here.

As of Spring 2020, the following colleges and universities require applicants to take the optional SAT Essay section (if submitting SAT scores and no ACT scores): Martin Luther College, Soka University of America, United States Military Academy, University of California – ​Berkeley, University of California – ​Davis, University of California – ​Irvine, University of California – Los Angeles, University of California – Merced, University of California – Riverside, University of California – ​San Diego, University of California – ​Santa Barbara, University of California – ​Santa Cruz

As of Spring 2020, the following colleges and universities recommend applicants take the optional SAT Essay section: Abilene Christian University, Berry College, Duke University, Michigan State University, Taylor University, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

As of Spring 2020, the following colleges and universities require applicants to take the optional ACT Writing section (if the student is submitting ACT scores and no SAT scores): Martin Luther College, Soka University of America, United States Military Academy, University of California – ​Berkeley, University of California – ​Davis, University of California – ​Irvine, University of California – Los Angeles, University of California – Merced, University of California – Riverside, University of California – ​San Diego, University of California – ​Santa Barbara, University of California – ​Santa Cruz

As of Spring 2020, the following colleges and universities recommend applicants take the optional ACT Writing section: Abilene Christian University, Berry College, Duke University, Michigan State University, Taylor University, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Why this Site is Valuable

While competitive colleges will review how you did on your ACT or SAT essay, the scores that matter to most to ALL colleges when comparing how you did on one test versus how you did on the other test are the scores that this site asks you to report and convert above.

First, colleges are comparing your SAT composite (EBRW + M) score to your ACT composite (E + M + R + S) score. Then, colleges will also compare your SAT Essay score to your ACT Writing (essay) score.

Comparing your SAT and ACT scores is incredibly frustrating if you don’t do it the right way. The above conversion calculators are valuable because they help you see things from the perspective of college admissions officers as they review test scores from students. Your job as a student is to put your best foot forward on your college application. This site helps you do just that by allowing you to gauge which test is your best test.

But Wait. There May be More …

The vast majority of students applying to colleges that require or recommend standardized tests to be submitted for admissions consideration need not worry about anything other than what you read above. Yet, for a small and selective group of top students, additional tests are wise to take (in addition to earning exemplary grades, engaging in impressive extracurricular activities, producing a well-written application, and in some cases, acing an admissions interview) in order to get into America’s most selective colleges. A handful of colleges – the likes of Harvard, Stanford, and Georgetown, among others – recommend that students submit their SAT and/or ACT results AND submit scores from one or more tests known as SAT Subject Tests.

Similar to the sections of the SAT, these tests have scaled scores ranging from 200 to 800, but unlike the SAT, these tests are purely content-based, take only one hour each, and cover exotic subjects like Physics, German, and World History. You can take up to three SAT Subject Tests in one day. To be a competitive candidate for admission to most Ivy League and Ivy League-level colleges, plan on taking two or three SAT Subject Tests at the end of the academic year in which you have taken a rigorous course in one of the following content areas:

• Literature
• Biology E/M
• Chemistry
• Physics
• U.S. History
• World History
• Mathematics Level 1
• Mathematics Level 2
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Modern Hebrew
• Italian
• Latin
• French with Listening
• German with Listening
• Spanish with Listening
• Chinese with Listening
• Japanese with Listening
• Korean with Listening

Never take a real SAT Subject Test before first taking a practice SAT Subject Test at home. This advice is important because you don’t want to bomb an SAT Subject Test since it is hard to take it multiple times with the expectation of doing much better from one test to the next. You either know the content or you don’t. Just because you do well in, say, your high school Spanish V class does not mean you will do well on the SAT Subject Test in Spanish because the latter could be testing grammar and other content that don’t figure into your success in the classroom.

The best SAT Subject Test preparation books are The Official Study Guide for ALL SAT Subject Tests, 2nd Edition if you are practicing a sampling of SAT Subject Test options, The Official SAT Subject Tests in Mathematics Levels 1 & 2 Study Guide if you are practicing for either the Math Level 1 or Math Level 2 SAT Subject Tests, and The Official SAT Subject Tests in U.S. & World History Study Guide if you are practicing for the U.S. History or World History SAT Subject Tests.

Most colleges that recommend or favorably consider submission of SAT Subject Test scores as part of a student’s application are looking for scores of 700 or higher on such tests in order to be a competitive candidate for admission.

The nearly eighty American/Canadian colleges and universities that, as of Spring 2020, recommend or favorably consider submission of strong SAT Subject Test scores with a student’s application are Amherst College, Babson College, Bates College, Boston College, Boston University, Bowdoin College, Brown University, Bucknell University, Carleton College, Carnegie Mellon University, Case Western Reserve University, Claremont McKenna, Colby College, College of William & Mary, Colorado College, Columbia University, Connecticut College, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Davidson College, Drexel University, Duke University, Emory University, Franklin Olin College of Engineering, George Washington University, Georgetown University, Hamilton College, Harvard University, Ithaca College, Johns Hopkins University, Kenyon College, Lafayette College, Macalester College, McGill University, Middlebury College, New York University, Northwestern University, Oberlin College, Occidental College, Pomona College, Princeton University, Reed College, Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute, Rice University, Smith College, Stanford University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Swarthmore College, The Cooper Union, Tulane University, Union College, University of California – Berkeley, University of California – Davis, University of California – Irvine, University of California – Los Angeles, University of California – Merced, University of California – Riverside, University of California – San Diego, University of California -vSanta Barbara, University of California – Santa Cruz, University of Chicago, University of Delaware, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, University of Rochester, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt University, Vassar College, Wake Forest University, Washington University in St. Louis, Webb Institute, Wellesley College, Wesleyan University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Yale University.

To determine which of the colleges above recommend or simply favorably consider submission of strong SAT Subject Test scores, please visit their up-to-date admissions websites.

Not Ever Going to Be a Fan of Standardized Tests?

The number of colleges that don’t require the SAT or ACT is growing as more colleges acknowledge that a student is more than a score and that by removing testing requirements colleges often get a bump in application numbers. Narrowing one’s college search to only test-optional colleges will greatly limit one’s choices; however, it will save one the time it takes to engage in SAT-ACT score comparison.

As of Spring 202o, four-year colleges and universities in the United States that are test optional in the admissions process, test flexible (meaning that the SAT/ACT is not required if other college-level exams specified by college or university, such as SAT Subject Test scores, Advanced Placement Test scores, or International Baccalaureate Exam scores are submitted) in the admissions process, or test optional for those students who rank in the top ten or top eight percent of their high school classes include:

A: Agnes Scott College (GA), Alaska Pacific University (AK), Albertus Magnus College (CT), Allegheny College (PA), Alma College (MI), American University (DC), Amridge University (AL), Arizona State University (AZ), Arkansas Tech (AR), Asbury University (KY), Assumption College (MA), Augustana College (IL), Augsburg University (MN), Augustana University (SD), Austin College (TX), Azusa Pacific University (CA),

B: Baldwin-Wallace College (OH), Ball State University (IN), Bard College (NY), Bard College at Simon’s Rock (MA), Bates College (ME), Bay Path University (MA), Belmont Abbey College (NC), Beloit College (WI), Bellarmine University (KY), Bennett College (NC), Bennington College (VT), Birmingham-Southern College (AL), Boston University (MA), Bowdoin College (ME), Bucknell University (PA), Brandeis University (MA), Brenau University (GA), Brevard College (NC), Bridgewater State University (MA), Bryant University (RI), Bryn Mawr College (PA),

C: Cabrini University (PA), California State Poly Pomona (CA), California State U. Maritime (CA), California State U. Bakersfield (CA), California State U. Channel Islands (CA), California State U. Chico (CA), California State U. Long Beach (CA), California State U. Los Angeles (CA), California State U. Monterey Bay (CA), California State U. Sacramento (CA), California State U. San Bernadino (CA), California State U. San Marcos (CA), California State U. Stanislaus (CA), California State Univ. Northridge (CA), California State University Fresno (CA), California State University Fullerton (CA), Carroll College (3.0 GPA) (MT), Carthage College (WI), Case Western University (OH), Catawba College (NC), The Catholic University of America (DC), Cazenovia College (NY), Champlain College (VT), Chapman University (CA), Chatham University (PA), Christopher Newport University (VA), Clark University (MA), Colby College (ME) “Test Flexible,” Colby-Sawyer College (NH), College for Creative Studies (MI), College of Idaho (ID), College of Saint Rose (NY), College of St. Elizabeth (NJ), The College of St. Scholastica (MN), College of the Atlantic (ME), College of the Holy Cross (MA), Colorado College (CO), Columbia College (SC), Concordia College (NY), Concordia University, Converse College (SC), St. Paul (MN), Connecticut College (CT), Cornell College (IA), Creighton University (NE),

D: Daemen College (NY), Dakota State University (SD), Dean College (MA), Delaware Valley University (PA), Denison University (OH), DePaul University (IL), DePauw University (IN), DeSales University (PA), Dickinson College (PA), Dickinson State University (ND), Doane Univerity (NB), Dominican University of California (CA), Drake University (IA), Drew University (NJ), Drexel University (PA) “Test Flexible,” Dunwoody College of Technology (MN), Duquesne University (PA),

E: Earlham College (IN), Eastern University (PA), East Texas Baptist University (TX), Eastern Connecticut State University (CT), Eastern Washington University (WA), Elizabethtown College (PA), Elmira College (NY), Elms College (MA), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ. (FL), Emerson College (MA) , Emporia State University (KS), Endicott College (MA), Evangel University (MO), Everglades University (FL), Evergreen State College (WA),

F: Fairfield University (CT), Fairleigh Dickinson University (NJ), Ferris State University (MI), Finlandia University (MI), Flagler College (FL), Florida Memorial University (FL), Framingham State University (MA), Franklin and Marshall College (PA), Furman University (SC),

G: George Mason University (VA), George Washington University (DC), Georgia Gwinnett College (GA), Gettysburg College (PA), Goucher College (MD), Guilford College (NC), Gustavus Adolphus (MN),

H: Hamilton College (NY) “Test Flexible,” Hamline University (MN), Hampshire College (MA), Hampton University (VA), Hanover College (IN), Hardin Simmons University (TX), Hartwick College (NY), Hawaii Pacific University (HI), Hendrix College (AR), High Point University (NC), Hiram College (OH), Hobart and William Smith Colleges (NY), Hofstra University (NY), Hood College (MD), Houghton College (NY), Humboldt State University (CA),

I: Illinois College (IL), Immaculata University (PA), Indiana State University (IU), Indiana University – Bloomington (IN), Indiana University – Fort Wayne (IN), Indiana University – Kokomo (IN), Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IN), Ithaca College (NY),

J: Jacksonville University (FL), James Madison University (VA), Johnson & Wales University (RI), Juniata College (PA),

K: Kalamazoo College (MI), Kansas State University (KS), Kean University (3.5 GPA) (NJ), Keiser University (FL), Keuka College (NY), Keystone College (PA), King University (TN), King’s College (PA), Knox College (IL),

L: La Salle University (PA), La Sierra University (CA), Lake Forest College (IL), Lasell College (MA), Lawrence University (WI), Le Moyne College (NY), Lebanon Valley College (PA), Lees-McRae College (NC), Lesley University (MA), Lewis and Clark (OR), Lewis-Clark State University (ID), Lindenwood University (MO), Linfield College (OR), Lourdes University (OH), Loyola University of Maryland (MD), Lycoming College (PA), Lynn University (FL),

M: Manchester University (IN), Manhattanville College (NY), Mansfield University (PA), Marist College (NY), Marlboro College (VT), Marquette University (WI), Marymount California University (CA), Marymount University (VA), Maryville University of St. Louis (MO), McDaniel College (MD), McKendree University (IL), Menlo College (CA), Mercyhurst University (PA), Merrimack College (MA), MidAmerica Nazarene University (KS), Middlebury College (VT) “Test Flexible,” Midland University (NE), Midwestern State University (TX), Millersville Univ. of Pennsylvania (PA), Mills College (CA), Mississippi State University (MS), Mississippi University for Women (MS), Monmouth College (IL), Montclair State University (NJ), Moravian College (PA), Mount Holyoke College (MA), Mount Ida College (MA), Mount St. Mary’s University (MD), Muhlenberg College (PA),

N: Nazareth College (NY), New School (NY), New York University (NY) “Test Flexible,” Newbury College (MA), Niagara University (NY), Northern Illinois University (test blind) (IL), Northern State University (SD), Northwest Missouri State University (MO), Northwest Nazarene University (ID), Norwich University (VT), Notre Dame of Maryland University (MD),

O: Ohio Wesleyan University (OH), Oklahoma Wesleyan University (OK), Olivet College (MI), Oregon Institute of Technology (OR), Oregon State University (OR), Ottawa University (KS),

P: Pace University (NY), Pacific Lutheran University (WA), Paul Smith’s College (NY), Pennsylvania College of Technology (PA), Pensacola State College (FL), Pfeiffer University (NC), Pitzer College (CA), Plymouth State University (NH), Point Park University (PA), Point University (GA), Presbyterian College (SC), Providence College (RI),

Q: Queens University of Charlotte (NC), Quinnipiac University (CT),

R: Radford University (VA), Rhode Island School of Design (RI), Rider University (NJ), Ripon College (WI), Roanoke College (VA), Robert Morris University (IL), Roberts Wesleyan University (NY), Rockhurst University (MO), Roger Williams University (RI), Rollins College (FL), Rosemont College (PA), Rowan University (NJ),

S: Sacred Heart University (CT), The Sage Colleges (NY), Saint Joseph’s University (PA), Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (IN), Saint Peter’s University (NJ), Salem State University (MA), Salisbury University (MD), Salve Regina University (RI), San Jose State University (CA), Sarah Lawrence College (NY), Scripps College (CA), Seton Hill University (PA), Sewanee — University of the South (TN), Siena College (NY), Sierra Heights University (MI), Simpson College (IA), Skidmore College (NY), Smith College (MA), Sonoma State University (CA), South Dakota State University (SD), South Florida State College (FL), Southern Illinois University – Carbondale (2.75 GPA) (IL), Southern New Hampshire University (NH), Southwestern University (TX), Southwestern Christian University (OK), Spalding University (KY), Springfield College (3.0 GPA) (MA), Spring Hill College (AL), St. Anselm College (NH), St. Bonaventure University (NY), St. John’s College (MD), St. John’s College (NM), St. John’s University (NY),St. Joseph’s College (ME), St. Lawrence University (NY), St. Leo University (FL), St. Mary’s College of Maryland (MD), St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame (IN), St. Michael’s College (VT), St. Thomas University (FL), Stephen F. Austin State U. (TX) “Top 10%,” Stetson University (FL), Stockton University (NJ), Stonehill College (MA), Suffolk University (MA), SUNY College of Technology – Delhi (NY), SUNY Potsdam (NY), Susquehanna University (PA), Sweet Briar College (VA),

T: Temple University (PA), Texas A & M (TX) “Top 10%,” Texas A & M Int’l.Univ. (TX) “Top 10%,” Texas Tech University (TX) ‘Top 10%,” Tiffin University (OH), Transylvania University (KY), Trinity College (CT), Tufts University (MA),

U: Union College (NY), Unity College (ME), University of Alaska Anchorage (AK), University of Alaska Fairbanks (AK), University of Arizona (AZ), University of Bridgeport (CT), University of Chicago (IL), University of Delaware (DE), University of Denver (CO), University of Evansville (IN), University of Hartford (CT), University of Hawaii – Oahu (HI), University of Holy Cross (LA), University of Houston (TX) “Top 10%,” University of La Verne (CA), University of Maine Farmington (ME), University of Maine Fort Kent (ME), University of Maine Presque Isle (ME), University of Maryland – Eastern Shore (3.4 GPA) (MD), University of Mary Washington (VA), University of Massachusetts – Boston (MA), University of Massachusetts – Lowell (MA), University of Minnesota – Crookston (MN), University of Mississippi (MS), University of Missouri – Kansas City (2.75 GPA) (MO), University of Nebraska – Kearney, Lincoln & Omaha (NE) (3.0 GPA or rank in top half), University of Nevada – Reno (NV), University of New England (ME), University of New Hampshire (NH), University of New Haven (CT), University of North Texas (TX) “Top 10%,” University of Northern Vt. – Lyndon (VT), University of Oregon (OR), University of Puget Sound (WA), University of Redlands (CA), University of Rochester (NY), University of Saint Joseph (CT), University of San Francisco (CA), University of St. Thomas (MN), University of St. Thomas (3.4 GPA) (TX), University of San Francisco (CA), University of Scranton (PA), University of South Dakota (SD), University of Southern Maine (ME), University of Texas Austin (TX) “Top 8%, University of Texas Dallas (TX) “Top 10%,” University of Texas Permian Basin (TX), University of Texas Tyler (TX), University of Toledo (OH), University of the Ozarks (AR), University of Valley Forge (PA), Ursinus College (PA), Utica College (NY),

V: Vermont Technical College (VT), Virginia Commonwealth University (VA),

W: Wagner College (NY), Wake Forest University (NC), Walla Walla University (WA), Walsh University (OH), Warner University (FL), Warren Wilson College (NC), Washington & Jefferson College (PA), Washington College (MD), Washington State University (WA) “Top 10%,” Wayne State College (NE), Weber State University (UT), Welch College (TN), Wells College (NY), Wentworth Institute of Technology (MA), Wesleyan University (CT), Western Illinois University (3.3 GPA) (IL), West Texas A & M University (TX), Western Connecticut State University (CT), Western New England University (MA), Western Oregon University (OR), Wheaton College (MA), Wheelock College (MA), Whitman College (WA), Whittier College (CA), Whitworth University (WA), Willamette University (OR), William Jewell College (MO), William Paterson University (NJ), Wilson College (PA), Wittenberg University (OH), Wofford College (SC), Woodbury University (CA), Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA), and Worcester State University (MA).

Always check directly with the colleges on your list before applying to make sure you understand their most up to date admissions policies fully.