USNews.com: America's Best Colleges 2008

A+ Options for B Students

Many teenagers with less-than-dazzling grades and SAT scores--who have watched superstar classmates collect rejection letters from elite colleges--assume that their own college choices will be limited to open-door State U. Not so, insist guidance and admissions counselors queried by U.S. News. Beyond the exclusive roster of nationally renowned schools lie hundreds of fine colleges that want to hear from--and welcome and challenge--serious B students with a desire to achieve.

Does that sound like you? Then you might want to consider the U.S. News list of "A-plus options for B students," quality colleges that accept a significant number of people with nonstratospheric grade-point-averages and SAT scores in the average-to-above-average range. The list features over 300 schools that are both respectably rated by U.S. News in the 2008 edition of America's Best Colleges and that students without straight A's will have a chance of getting into. You'll get a sense of how good a chance by checking out a school's acceptance rate for fall 2006, along with information about the grades and test scores of the middle 50 percent of fall 2006's freshman class.

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