Fall 2024 federal data

Colleges for a 33 ACT score

A 33 ACT sits inside the middle 50% of enrolled submitters at 114 colleges, above it at 749 and below it at 16, out of 879 colleges that report ACT ranges.

114 targets16 reaches749 where it is a strength

Target colleges

Colleges where a 33 is in the middle 50%

114 colleges, highest score range first
College	State	SAT middle 50%	ACT middle 50%	Acceptance rate	Test policy (fall 2024)
Yale University	CT	1470-1570	33-35	3.9%	Test-optional
Dartmouth College	NH	1500-1570	33-35	5.4%	Test-optional
Pomona College	CA	1490-1560	33-35	7.1%	Test-optional
Swarthmore College	PA	1490-1560	33-35	7.5%	Test-optional
Northwestern University	IL	1510-1570	33-35	7.7%	Test-optional
Cornell University	NY	1500-1570	33-35	8.8%	Test-optional
Amherst College	MA	1490-1580	33-35	9.0%	Test-optional
Washington University in St Louis	MO	1500-1570	33-35	12%	Test-optional
Claremont McKenna College	CA	1470-1560	33-35	9.6%	Test-optional
Bowdoin College	ME	1470-1550	33-35	7.1%	Test-optional
Barnard College	NY	1470-1560	32-34	8.8%	Test-optional
Emory University	GA	1470-1550	32-35	11%	Test-optional
University of Notre Dame	IN	1455-1560	33-35	11%	Test-optional
Emory University-Oxford College	GA	1470-1550	32-35	13%	Test-optional
Wellesley College	MA	1460-1560	33-35	14%	Test-optional
Carleton College	MN	1450-1560	32-34	20%	Test-optional
Tufts University	MA	1470-1560	33-35	12%	Test-optional
Haverford College	PA	1460-1550	33-35	12%	Test-optional
Case Western Reserve University	OH	1430-1540	32-34	37%	Test-optional
Colby College	ME	1460-1550	32-34	7.1%	Test-optional
Middlebury College	VT	1445-1550	33-35	11%	Test-optional
Hamilton College	NY	1450-1550	33-35	14%	Test-optional
Colgate University	NY	1430-1540	33-34	14%	Test-optional
Boston College	MA	1440-1540	33-35	16%	Test-optional
University of Southern California	CA	1450-1550	32-35	9.8%	Test-optional
Vassar College	NY	1450-1550	33-35	19%	Test-optional
Scripps College	CA	1440-1540	31-34	38%	Test-optional
Northeastern University	MA	1440-1540	33-35	5.2%	Test-optional
Wesleyan University	CT	1415-1540	33-35	17%	Test-optional
Smith College	MA	1420-1540	32-35	21%	Test-optional
Georgetown University	DC	1390-1550	31-35	13%	Required
Grinnell College	IA	1410-1540	31-34	14%	Test-optional
University of Rochester	NY	1410-1540	31-34	40%	Test-optional
Washington and Lee University	VA	1430-1540	33-34	14%	Test-optional
University of Richmond	VA	1410-1530	33-35	22%	Test-optional
Boston University	MA	1420-1530	32-34	11%	Test-optional
Georgia Institute of Technology	GA	1370-1540	30-34	14%	Required
University of Virginia	VA	1410-1540	32-35	17%	Test-optional
Rhode Island School of Design	RI	1396-1530	31-34	19%	Test-optional
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	NC	1390-1530	28-34	15%	Test-optional
Wake Forest University	NC	1410-1520	32-34	22%	Test-optional
William & Mary	VA	1400-1530	32-34	34%	Test-optional
Brandeis University	MA	1390-1520	31-34	41%	Test-optional
University of Maryland-College Park	MD	1400-1530	32-35	45%	Test-optional
Bates College	ME	1420-1530	31-34	13%	Test-optional
Tulane University of Louisiana	LA	1400-1520	31-34	14%	Test-optional
Davidson College	NC	1400-1530	31-34	13%	Test-optional
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	MI	1360-1530	31-34	16%	Test-optional
Mount Holyoke College	MA	1380-1530	32-35	36%	Test-optional
Babson College	MA	1390-1530	31-34	17%	Test-optional
University of Wisconsin-Madison	WI	1380-1520	29-33	45%	Test-optional
Villanova University	PA	1395-1510	32-34	27%	Test-optional
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	NY	1375-1510	30-34	64%	Test-optional
Oberlin College	OH	1360-1520	31-34	34%	Test-optional
Occidental College	CA	1380-1520	31-34	44%	Test-optional
Stevens Institute of Technology	NJ	1380-1505	31-34	48%	Test-optional
Lehigh University	PA	1370-1500	31-34	26%	Test-optional
Macalester College	MN	1350-1510	30-34	28%	Test-optional
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	IL	1310-1520	30-34	42%	Test-optional
Yeshiva University	NY	1340-1510	29-33	56%	Test-optional
Connecticut College	CT	1350-1500	30-33	37%	Test-optional
George Washington University	DC	1350-1500	31-34	47%	Test-optional
Lafayette College	PA	1350-1500	31-33	32%	Test-optional
Reed College	OR	1290-1520	30-34	25%	Test-optional
Kenyon College	OH	1358-1503	31-33	31%	Test-optional
Santa Clara University	CA	1350-1490	31-33	48%	Test-optional
University of Massachusetts-Amherst	MA	1310-1500	30-33	60%	Test-optional
Southern Methodist University	TX	1340-1490	30-34	63%	Test-optional
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	IN	1320-1500	29-34	77%	Test-optional
Hillsdale College	MI	1320-1490	30-33	21%	Test-optional
Stony Brook University	NY	1330-1500	29-33	49%	Test-optional
Fordham University	NY	1320-1480	30-33	59%	Test-optional
Denison University	OH	1320-1490	30-33	17%	Test-optional
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art	NY	1295-1501	28-34	21%	Test-optional
Whitman College	WA	1310-1480	29-33	38%	Test-optional
Rutgers University-New Brunswick	NJ	1310-1500	28-33	58%	Test-optional
University of Tulsa	OK	1223-1530	25-34	62%	Test-optional
Trinity University	TX	1340-1500	31-34	26%	Test-optional
Trinity College	CT	1298-1470	30-34	29%	Test-optional
University of Miami	FL	1320-1480	30-33	19%	Test-optional
Bucknell University	PA	1310-1470	30-33	29%	Test-optional
Colorado School of Mines	CO	1320-1480	29-33	61%	Test-optional
University of Florida	FL	1320-1480	29-33	24%	Required
Skidmore College	NY	1340-1480	31-33	21%	Test-optional
The University of Texas at Austin	TX	1250-1510	27-33	27%	Test-optional
Bryn Mawr College	PA	1280-1510	29-33	29%	Test-optional
Union College	NY	1310-1480	29-33	44%	Test-optional
Dickinson College	PA	1310-1460	30-33	42%	Test-optional
Franklin and Marshall College	PA	1310-1463	30-33	28%	Test-optional
University of Georgia	GA	1270-1480	29-34	38%	Required
Rochester Institute of Technology	NY	1300-1460	29-33	67%	Test-optional
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	PA	1280-1460	29-33	58%	Test-optional
Willamette University	OR	1240-1440	28-33	77%	Test-optional
Clark University	MA	1288-1460	30-33	40%	Test-optional
St Lawrence University	NY	1255-1420	30-33	54%	Test-optional
Purdue University	IN	1200-1480	27-34	50%	Required
Colorado College	CO	1230-1460	29-33	19%	Test-optional
University of Connecticut	CT	1210-1440	28-33	52%	Required
University of Colorado Boulder	CO	1240-1430	29-33	78%	Test-optional
United States Military Academy	NY	1200-1430	27-33	13%	Required
New Jersey Institute of Technology	NJ	1210-1460	27-34	65%	Test-optional
United States Air Force Academy	CO	1230-1440	26-33	14%	Required
The College of Wooster	OH	1220-1460	27-33	60%	Test-optional
Muhlenberg College	PA	1250-1410	29-33	72%	Test-optional
University of Denver	CO	1240-1410	28-33	78%	Test-optional
Thomas Aquinas College	CA	1220-1400	28-33	83%	Required
Simmons University	MA	1220-1390	26-34	70%	Test-optional
Wheaton College (Massachusetts)	MA	1220-1390	29-33	68%	Test-optional
Indiana University-Bloomington	IN	1170-1400	27-33	78%	Test-optional
Maryland Institute College of Art	MD	1078-1305	25-33	77%	Test-optional
Siena University	NY	1110-1360	27-33	69%	Test-optional
High Point University	NC	1110-1320	24-33	75%	Test-optional
Earlham College	IN	1110-1290	24-33	73%	Test-optional
Simpson College	IA	Not reported	31-33	86%	Test-optional

Reach colleges

Closest reaches for a 33 ACT

The 16 colleges whose 25th percentile is closest above 33
College	State	SAT middle 50%	ACT middle 50%	Acceptance rate	Test policy (fall 2024)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	MA	1520-1580	34-36	4.6%	Required
Stanford University	CA	1510-1580	34-35	3.6%	Test-optional
Harvard University	MA	1510-1580	34-36	3.7%	Required
Columbia University in the City of New York	NY	1510-1580	34-35	4.0%	Test-optional
University of Chicago	IL	1510-1580	34-35	4.5%	Test-optional
Princeton University	NJ	1510-1580	34-35	4.6%	Test-optional
University of Pennsylvania	PA	1510-1570	34-36	5.4%	Test-optional
Johns Hopkins University	MD	1520-1570	34-36	6.4%	Test-optional
Rice University	TX	1510-1570	34-35	8.0%	Test-optional
Brown University	RI	1510-1580	34-35	5.4%	Test-optional
Duke University	NC	1500-1570	34-35	5.7%	Test-optional
Vanderbilt University	TN	1500-1570	34-35	5.9%	Test-optional
Carnegie Mellon University	PA	1500-1570	34-35	12%	Test-optional
Harvey Mudd College	CA	1500-1570	34-36	13%	Test-optional
Williams College	MA	1490-1570	34-35	8.3%	Test-optional
New York University	NY	1480-1560	34-35	9.2%	Test-optional

Score is a strength

Colleges where a 33 is above the middle 50%

The 30 colleges whose 75th percentile is closest below 33
College	State	SAT middle 50%	ACT middle 50%	Acceptance rate	Test policy (fall 2024)
Binghamton University	NY	1340-1500	30-32	39%	Test-optional
Ohio State University	OH	1310-1480	28-32	61%	Test-optional
Rhodes College	TN	1300-1486	26-32	50%	Test-optional
St Olaf College	MN	1300-1470	28-32	48%	Test-optional
Bard College	NY	1270-1450	28-32	52%	Test-optional
Wheaton College	IL	1260-1470	28-32	87%	Test-optional
Gettysburg College	PA	1270-1460	29-32	39%	Test-optional
American University	DC	1280-1460	29-32	62%	Test-optional
Pepperdine University	CA	1290-1450	29-32	63%	Test-optional
North Carolina State University at Raleigh	NC	1300-1470	28-32	42%	Test-optional
Syracuse University	NY	1270-1440	29-32	46%	Test-optional
University of Vermont	VT	1290-1440	30-32	65%	Test-optional
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	VA	1280-1450	28-32	55%	Test-optional
Brigham Young University	UT	1270-1460	28-32	68%	Test-optional
Centre College	KY	1160-1450	25-32	54%	Test-optional
Florida State University	FL	1270-1410	29-32	24%	Required
Loyola Marymount University	CA	1260-1430	28-32	45%	Test-optional
University of the Pacific	CA	1183-1480	23-32	71%	Test-optional
Furman University	SC	1260-1430	28-32	43%	Test-optional
Emerson College	MA	1270-1420	29-32	51%	Test-optional
College of the Holy Cross	MA	1240-1410	27-32	18%	Test-optional
Touro University	NY	1218-1453	24-32	61%	Test-optional
Drexel University	PA	1240-1440	27-32	79%	Test-optional
Bennington College	VT	1291-1403	30-32	45%	Test-optional
Providence College	RI	1250-1390	29-32	51%	Test-optional
Pennsylvania State University	PA	1240-1420	27-32	61%	Test-optional
Westmont College	CA	1240-1450	25-32	77%	Test-optional
Clemson University	SC	1240-1410	28-32	38%	Test-optional
United States Coast Guard Academy	CT	1240-1400	27-32	22%	Test-optional
Fairfield University	CT	1260-1390	29-32	33%	Test-optional

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FAQ

Questions about a 33 ACT

What colleges can I get into with a 33 ACT?

No score guarantees admission, but a 33 falls inside the middle 50% of enrolled ACT submitters at 114 of the 879 colleges in this directory that report ACT ranges, from Yale University to Simpson College. It is above the middle 50% at 749 colleges and below it at 16.

Should I submit a 33 ACT to a test-optional college?

A common rule of thumb is to submit when your score is at or above a college's 50th percentile and to consider withholding it when it falls below the 25th. The ranges here describe students who chose to submit, so check each college's own guidance.

Sources and method

Where these numbers come from

College Scorecard data downloads (June 10, 2026 release)U.S. Department of Education
College Scorecard data dictionary and cohort mapU.S. Department of Education
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)National Center for Education Statistics

Test scores: 25th, 50th and 75th percentile SAT section scores and ACT composites of first-time students who enrolled in fall 2024 and submitted scores, as each college reported to IPEDS. Composite SAT ranges add the two section percentiles, so they are an estimate of the true composite range.

Admissions and test policy: Fall 2024 entering class, reported to IPEDS in 2024-25. Policies change; check each college's admissions site before applying.

Cost and outcomes: tuition for academic year 2024-25; average net price for academic year 2023-24; graduation rate for first-time, full-time students who started in 2018-19, graduating within 150% of normal time (6 years for a bachelor's degree); median earnings 10 years after entry, measured in 2020 and 2021, in 2022 dollars.

Coverage: colleges currently operating that reported SAT or ACT ranges and enrolled at least 500 undergraduates. Data released 2026-06-10, retrieved 2026-10-05. Spot an error? Email [email protected].