<p>Depends on your definition of average and typical. There are colleges in every state that will take 2.0 kids either remedially, on probation or out right acceptance. There are plenty of perfectly fine colleges and universities that happily take 3.0 students. I started the college search process with out oldest in mid-2005. Maybe it’s crowded at the tippy tippy top, but I’m not sure my experience has mirrored yours once you get out the lottery school level but then I don’t have any reference point for what you consider “average.”</p>