A+ Schools for B Students

If you're a good student with less than stellar test scores or a so-so GPA, these are the schools for you. These colleges, which have strong ratings in the 2013 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings, accept a significant number of students with nonstratospheric transcripts.

Save	U.S. News rank	School	Selectivity	Fall 2011 acceptance rate	SAT/ACT 25th-75th percentile
	#54	Pepperdine University Malibu, CA	more selective	31.6%	1100-1330
	#58	Fordham University New York, NY	more selective	42.4%	1150-1340
	#58	Syracuse University Syracuse, NY	more selective	49.4%	1050-1270
	#65	Purdue University--West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN	more selective	68.3%	1040-1300
	#68	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ	more selective	61.1%	1080-1310
	#72	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	more selective	72.9%	23-28
	#72	University of Iowa Iowa City, IA	more selective	79.8%	23-28
	#75	University of Delaware Newark, DE	more selective	58.2%	1100-1300
	#77	Baylor University Waco, TX	more selective	39.7%	24-29
	#77	SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse, NY	more selective	46.8%	1100-1270
	#77	University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL	more selective	43.5%	22-29
	#83	Clark University Worcester, MA	more selective	67.9%	1080-1310
	#83	Drexel University Philadelphia, PA	more selective	57.5%	1100-1310
	#83	Indiana University--Bloomington Bloomington, IN	more selective	72.3%	1050-1280
	#83	Marquette University Milwaukee, WI	more selective	56.8%	24-29
	#89	Auburn University Auburn University, AL	more selective	70.0%	24-30
	#89	Miami University--Oxford Oxford, OH	more selective	74.1%	24-29
	#92	St. Louis University St. Louis, MO	more selective	61.3%	25-30
	#92	Stony Brook University--SUNY Stony Brook, NY	more selective	39.2%	1130-1330
	#92	Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX	more selective	37.7%	24-29
	#92	University of Vermont Burlington, VT	more selective	75.4%	1090-1280
	#97	Florida State University Tallahassee, FL	more selective	58.5%	25-28
	#97	University of Colorado--Boulder Boulder, CO	more selective	86.9%	24-28
	#97	University of Massachusetts--Amherst Amherst, MA	more selective	65.6%	1090-1280
	#97	University of Missouri Columbia, MO	more selective	82.3%	23-28

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