Easiest Colleges to Get Into 2024

If you are looking for an (almost) guaranteed admission or maybe just a safety school, these are the colleges you want to be considering.

The easiest colleges to get into are:

10. D’Youville College

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  • Location: Buffalo, New York
  • Acceptance Rate: 92%
  • Average SAT score: 1130
  • Average ACT score: 23
  • Most popular major: Nursing

D’Youville College used to be the college with the lowest average SAT score in our data set. They’ve enhanced their admissions standards a little bit but can still be your safety school.

9. University of Toledo

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  • Location: Toledo, Ohio
  • Acceptance Rate: 97%
  • Average SAT score:1150
  • Average ACT score: 24
  • Most popular major: Nursing

The average SAT score for students admitted to the University of Toledo is 1150. That means that half of those students admitted scored below 1150.

8. Western Kentucky University

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  • Location: Bowling Green, Kentucky
  • Acceptance Rate: 98%
  • Average SAT score: Not Available
  • Average ACT score: Not Available
  • Most popular major: General Studies

Western Kentucky University is a good safety school for sports fans. It has the best athletic program of the colleges on this list.

7. Wright State University

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  • Location: Dayton, Ohio
  • Acceptance Rate: 96%
  • Average SAT score: 1100
  • Average ACT score: 20
  • Most popular major: Nursing

Is this the (W)right college for you? Wright State University admits 96% of applicants.

6. Eastern Oregon University

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  • Location: La Grande, Oregon
  • Acceptance Rate: 98%
  • Average SAT score: Not Available
  • Average ACT score: Not Available
  • Most popular major: Business

The admissions standards at EOU are lower than some of the other colleges closer to the Oregon coast.

5. Belmont Abbey College

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  • Location: Belmont, North Carolina
  • Acceptance Rate: 99%
  • Average SAT score: 1120
  • Average ACT score: 21
  • Most popular major: Business

Belmont Abbey College is a small college in the Charlotte, NC area known for its business program.

4. Dickinson State University

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  • Location: Dickinson, North Dakota
  • Acceptance Rate: 99%
  • Average SAT score: 990
  • Average ACT score: 19
  • Most popular major: Business

North Dakota winters are more challenging than getting admitted to Dickinson State University.

3. Eastern Washington University

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  • Location: Cheney, Washington
  • Acceptance Rate: 97%
  • Average SAT score: Not Available
  • Average ACT score: Not Available
  • Most popular major: Psychology

Eastern Washington University offers a surprisingly robust academic catalog. Affordable too.

2. University of Texas at El Paso

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  • Location: El Paso, Texas
  • Acceptance Rate: 100%
  • Average SAT score: Not Available
  • Average ACT score: Not Available
  • Most popular major: Nursing

The University of Texas at El Paso doesn’t actually admit 100% of their applicants but they admit 99 point something so that the number rounds up to 100%.

1. Adams State University

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  • Location: Alamosa, Colorado
  • Acceptance Rate: 100%
  • Average SAT score: 1030
  • Average ACT score: 20
  • Most popular major: Business

Want to go to college in the mountains? Adams State University might be for you. They admit 99.9% of all applicants.