<p>Many excellent colleges are now “Test Optional” schools which, as the phrase implies, do not require test scores for admission. See the following link for a list of such colleges:</p>
<p><a href=“ACT/SAT Optional List - Fairtest”>http://www.fairtest.org/university/optional</a></p>
<p>These are quite prestigious: </p>
<p>University of Rochester
Bard College
Bates College
Brandeis University
Bowdoin College
Colby College
College of the Holy Cross (strong employment network in the NE)
Colorado College
Pitzer College
Middlebury College
Union College (NY)
Wake Forest University</p>
<p>These are excellent too:</p>
<p>Guilford College
College of the Atlantic
Rollins College
Connecticut College
Denison University
Dickinson College
Franklin and Marshall College
Furman University (kind of a small version of Vanderbilt)
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
George Mason University
Gettysburg College
Goucher College
St. Lawrence University (kind of small version of Cornell)
Ohio Wesleyan University</p>
<p>Most of the colleges listed above are small colleges which simply are not big enough to be famous. However, many give an education which is almost Ivy League in quality. Almost all that I have listed are likely to be better than you safety school (just guessing on this, though).</p>
<p>Look at the list, you might find a good one that you like. I did not list every respectable college on the list.</p>