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Colleges you can get into with a 33 ACT

910 of the 910 schools reporting ACT ranges match a 33 — sorted into targets (inside the middle 50%), safeties (at or above the 75th percentile), and reaches (just below the 25th). Ordered by Trajecta Score, a 0–100 measure built from College Scorecard and IPEDS data.

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Target schools for a 33 ACT

Your 33 falls inside these schools' middle 50% — the 25th–75th percentile range of enrolled students. You'd be a typical admit by test score.

Target schools for a 33 ACT, ordered by Trajecta Score
#	College	Location	ACT range	Admit rate	Score
1	Yale University	New Haven, CT	33–35 Elite	4%	87
2	Cornell University	Ithaca, NY	33–35 Elite	9%	84
3	Bowdoin College	Brunswick, ME	33–35 Elite	7%	83
4	Pomona College	Claremont, CA	33–35 Elite	7%	83
5	Claremont McKenna College	Claremont, CA	33–35 Elite	10%	83
6	Dartmouth College	Hanover, NH	33–35 Elite	5%	83
7	Northwestern University	Evanston, IL	33–35 Elite	8%	83
8	Washington University in St Louis	St. Louis, MO	33–35 Highly Selective	12%	82
9	Amherst College	Amherst, MA	33–35 Elite	9%	82
10	University of Notre Dame	Notre Dame, IN	33–35 Highly Selective	11%	82
11	Wellesley College	Wellesley, MA	33–35 Highly Selective	14%	81
12	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	Atlanta, GA	30–34 Highly Selective	14%	81
13	Colby College	Waterville, ME	32–34 Elite	7%	81
14	Swarthmore College	Swarthmore, PA	33–35 Elite	7%	81
15	Washington and Lee University	Lexington, VA	33–34 Highly Selective	14%	80
16	Emory University	Atlanta, GA	32–35 Highly Selective	11%	80
17	University of Virginia-Main Campus	Charlottesville, VA	32–35 Highly Selective	17%	80
18	Davidson College	Davidson, NC	31–34 Highly Selective	13%	80
19	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor, MI	31–34 Highly Selective	16%	80
20	Georgetown University	Washington, DC	31–35 Highly Selective	13%	80
21	University of Southern California	Los Angeles, CA	32–35 Elite	10%	79
22	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill, NC	28–34 Highly Selective	15%	79
23	Colgate University	Hamilton, NY	33–34 Highly Selective	14%	78
24	Haverford College	Haverford, PA	33–35 Highly Selective	12%	78
25	Northeastern University	Boston, MA	33–35 Elite	5%	78
26	Barnard College	New York, NY	32–34 Elite	9%	77
27	Boston University	Boston, MA	32–34 Highly Selective	11%	77
28	Boston College	Chestnut Hill, MA	33–35 Highly Selective	16%	77
29	Hamilton College	Clinton, NY	33–35 Highly Selective	14%	76
30	Babson College	Wellesley, MA	31–34 Highly Selective	17%	76
31	Middlebury College	Middlebury, VT	33–35 Highly Selective	11%	76
32	Tufts University	Medford, MA	33–35 Highly Selective	11%	76
33	The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art	New York, NY	28–34 Selective	21%	76
34	Bates College	Lewiston, ME	31–34 Highly Selective	13%	76
35	Wesleyan University	Middletown, CT	33–35 Highly Selective	16%	76
36	University of Maryland-College Park	College Park, MD	32–35 Moderate	45%	75
37	Grinnell College	Grinnell, IA	31–34 Highly Selective	15%	75
38	Carleton College	Northfield, MN	32–34 Selective	20%	74
39	Wake Forest University	Winston-Salem, NC	32–34 Selective	22%	74
40	Lehigh University	Bethlehem, PA	31–34 Selective	26%	73

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Safety schools for a 33 ACT

Your 33 is at or above the 75th percentile of enrolled students at these schools. (Schools admitting under 20% never appear here — no score makes a sub-20% school a safety.)

Safety schools for a 33 ACT, ordered by Trajecta Score
#	College	Location	ACT range	Admit rate	Score
1	University of Florida	Gainesville, FL	29–33 Selective	24%	79
2	The University of Texas at Austin	Austin, TX	27–33 Selective	27%	74
3	United States Merchant Marine Academy	Kings Point, NY	22–29 Selective	34%	74
4	Lafayette College	Easton, PA	31–33 Selective	31%	73
5	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Madison, WI	29–33 Moderate	45%	72
6	Florida State University	Tallahassee, FL	29–32 Selective	24%	72
7	Brigham Young University	Provo, UT	28–32 Open	68%	70
8	Stony Brook University	Stony Brook, NY	29–33 Moderate	49%	70
9	Bucknell University	Lewisburg, PA	30–33 Selective	29%	69
10	Binghamton University	Vestal, NY	30–32 Selective	39%	69
11	Santa Clara University	Santa Clara, CA	31–33 Moderate	48%	69
12	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	Raleigh, NC	28–32 Moderate	42%	69
13	Bentley University	Waltham, MA	28–31 Moderate	45%	69
14	Clemson University	Clemson, SC	28–32 Selective	38%	67
15	Colorado School of Mines	Golden, CO	29–33 Moderate	61%	67
16	Texas A&M University-College Station	College Station, TX	25–31 Moderate	57%	67
17	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	New Brunswick, NJ	28–33 Moderate	58%	67
18	Skidmore College	Saratoga Springs, NY	31–33 Selective	21%	67
19	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Blacksburg, VA	28–32 Moderate	55%	67
20	Kenyon College	Gambier, OH	31–33 Selective	31%	66
21	Franklin and Marshall College	Lancaster, PA	30–33 Selective	28%	66
22	University of Connecticut	Storrs, CT	28–33 Moderate	52%	66
23	Bryn Mawr College	Bryn Mawr, PA	29–33 Selective	29%	66
24	Ohio State University-Main Campus	Columbus, OH	28–32 Moderate	61%	66
25	Union College	Schenectady, NY	29–33 Moderate	44%	65
26	Illinois Institute of Technology	Chicago, IL	26–32 Moderate	55%	65
27	University of South Florida	Tampa, FL	24–29 Moderate	43%	65
28	University of Illinois Chicago	Chicago, IL	25–31 Open	77%	65
29	University of Central Florida	Orlando, FL	25–29 Moderate	40%	65
30	Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences	Albany, NY	23–31 Moderate	53%	64
31	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	Minneapolis, MN	26–31 Open	80%	64
32	Texas Christian University	Fort Worth, TX	26–31 Moderate	44%	64
33	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	Amherst, MA	30–33 Moderate	60%	64
34	Fairfield University	Fairfield, CT	29–32 Selective	33%	64
35	Syracuse University	Syracuse, NY	29–32 Moderate	46%	64
36	Florida International University	Miami, FL	21–27 Moderate	55%	64
37	Furman University	Greenville, SC	28–32 Moderate	43%	64
38	University of the Pacific	Stockton, CA	23–32 Open	71%	63
39	Loyola Marymount University	Los Angeles, CA	28–32 Moderate	45%	63
40	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	Knoxville, TN	25–31 Moderate	42%	63

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Reach schools for a 33 ACT

Your 33 is below these schools' 25th percentile, but within striking distance (3 points). A strong GPA, essays, and activities can close that gap.

Reach schools for a 33 ACT, ordered by Trajecta Score
#	College	Location	ACT range	Admit rate	Score
1	Princeton University	Princeton, NJ	34–35 Elite	5%	91
2	Stanford University	Stanford, CA	34–35 Elite	4%	90
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, MA	34–36 Elite	5%	89
4	Harvard University	Cambridge, MA	34–36 Elite	4%	88
5	University of Chicago	Chicago, IL	34–35 Elite	4%	87
6	Rice University	Houston, TX	34–35 Elite	8%	87
7	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, MD	34–36 Elite	6%	86
8	Vanderbilt University	Nashville, TN	34–35 Elite	6%	86
9	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, PA	34–36 Elite	5%	86
10	Brown University	Providence, RI	34–35 Elite	5%	85
11	Williams College	Williamstown, MA	34–35 Elite	8%	85
12	Columbia University in the City of New York	New York, NY	34–35 Elite	4%	85
13	Duke University	Durham, NC	34–35 Elite	6%	85
14	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, PA	34–35 Highly Selective	12%	80
15	Harvey Mudd College	Claremont, CA	34–36 Highly Selective	13%	79
16	New York University	New York, NY	34–35 Elite	9%	76

Ranges are the 25th–75th percentiles of enrolled students, from College Scorecard / IPEDS. Only the 910 schools reporting ACT data appear — many schools are test-optional, so a missing school isn't a rejection signal; check its data page and testing policy. Estimate your GPA with the GPA calculator, or see how the ranking works →