How to use these pages with your GPA
Every profile here answers the same three questions from the same federal sources: how hard is it to get in (acceptance rate, and SAT/ACT ranges where scores are considered), what does it cost (published tuition, in- and out-of-state), and what comes out the other side (graduation rates and earnings, campus-wide and by major). Start by knowing your own numbers — the GPA calculator for your transcript, theSAT score calculator for your practice tests — then read a school's middle-50% ranges the way admissions offices do: as the profile of who actually enrolled, not a cutoff.
Two honesty notes baked into every page. Test-optional is now the norm — only about a hundred U.S. colleges still require scores — so score ranges describe students who submitted, a stronger-testing subset, and each page's policy badge tells you which reading applies. And earnings figures come in two flavors that never mix: a campus-wide median ten years after entry, and per-major medians four years after completion. Where a school's programs are too small for the federal privacy rules, the page says so instead of inventing a number. If a school you expect is missing, its federal record didn't clear our completeness bar — see the state pages, which list every school with whatever data exists.