Colleges With the Highest SAT Scores
Colleges ranked by the SAT score of their admitted students (75th percentile). This is a quick way to gauge how academically competitive a school's admitted class is. Each links to its full admissions profile and what it weighs beyond scores.
Schools
100
Median acceptance
17%
Most selective
Harvard University
3% acceptance
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100 schools
- Harvard University3%acceptanceMost selectiveMA · SAT 1580
- California Institute of Technology3%acceptanceMost selectiveCA · SAT 1580
- Princeton University4%acceptanceMost selectiveNJ · SAT 1570
- Stanford University4%acceptanceMost selectiveCA · SAT 1570
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology4%acceptanceMost selectiveMA · SAT 1570
- Columbia University4%acceptanceMost selectiveNY · SAT 1560
- Yale University5%acceptanceMost selectiveCT · SAT 1570
- University of Chicago5%acceptanceMost selectiveIL · SAT 1570
- Brown University5%acceptanceMost selectiveRI · SAT 1560
- Duke University6%acceptanceMost selectiveNC · SAT 1570
- Dartmouth College6%acceptanceMost selectiveNH · SAT 1560
- University of Pennsylvania6%acceptanceMost selectivePA · SAT 1560
- Vanderbilt University6%acceptanceMost selectiveTN · SAT 1560
- Northwestern University7%acceptanceMost selectiveIL · SAT 1560
- Johns Hopkins University7%acceptanceMost selectiveMD · SAT 1560
- Pomona College7%acceptanceMost selectiveCA · SAT 1540
- Northeastern University7%acceptanceMost selectiveMA · SAT 1530
- Rice University8%acceptanceMost selectiveTX · SAT 1560
- New York University8%acceptanceMost selectiveNY · SAT 1530
- Cornell University9%acceptanceMost selectiveNY · SAT 1550
- Amherst College9%acceptanceMost selectiveMA · SAT 1540
- Swarthmore College9%acceptanceMost selectivePA · SAT 1530
- Bowdoin College9%acceptanceMost selectiveME · SAT 1520
- Claremont McKenna College9%acceptanceMost selectiveCA · SAT 1520
- UCLA9%acceptanceMost selectiveCA · SAT 1510
- Tufts University10%acceptanceMost selectiveMA · SAT 1530
- Williams College10%acceptanceMost selectiveMA · SAT 1530
- Colby College10%acceptanceMost selectiveME · SAT 1500
- Carnegie Mellon University11%acceptanceHighly selectivePA · SAT 1550
- Washington University in St. Louis11%acceptanceHighly selectiveMO · SAT 1550
- University of California, Berkeley11%acceptanceHighly selectiveCA · SAT 1530
- Tulane University11%acceptanceHighly selectiveLA · SAT 1500
- U.S. Air Force Academy11%acceptanceHighly selectiveCO · SAT 1410
- University of Notre Dame12%acceptanceHighly selectiveIN · SAT 1550
- University of Southern California12%acceptanceHighly selectiveCA · SAT 1530
- Georgetown University12%acceptanceHighly selectiveDC · SAT 1520
- Hamilton College12%acceptanceHighly selectiveNY · SAT 1500
- Grinnell College12%acceptanceHighly selectiveIA · SAT 1470
- Emory University13%acceptanceHighly selectiveGA · SAT 1520
- Haverford College13%acceptanceHighly selectivePA · SAT 1500
- Wellesley College13%acceptanceHighly selectiveMA · SAT 1500
- Colorado College13%acceptanceHighly selectiveCO · SAT 1440
- Boston University14%acceptanceHighly selectiveMA · SAT 1500
- Bates College14%acceptanceHighly selectiveME · SAT 1470
- Boston College15%acceptanceHighly selectiveMA · SAT 1520
- Middlebury College15%acceptanceHighly selectiveVT · SAT 1490
- Vassar College15%acceptanceHighly selectiveNY · SAT 1490
- Wesleyan University15%acceptanceHighly selectiveCT · SAT 1490
- Colgate University15%acceptanceHighly selectiveNY · SAT 1460
- Carleton College16%acceptanceHighly selectiveMN · SAT 1510
- Georgia Tech17%acceptanceHighly selectiveGA · SAT 1530
- Davidson College17%acceptanceHighly selectiveNC · SAT 1470
- University of North Carolina17%acceptanceHighly selectiveNC · SAT 1470
- Washington and Lee University17%acceptanceHighly selectiveVA · SAT 1470
- University of Michigan18%acceptanceHighly selectiveMI · SAT 1520
- University of Virginia19%acceptanceHighly selectiveVA · SAT 1510
- University of Miami19%acceptanceHighly selectiveFL · SAT 1480
- Wake Forest University21%acceptanceHighly selectiveNC · SAT 1490
- UC Irvine21%acceptanceHighly selectiveCA · SAT 1420
- Smith College22%acceptanceHighly selectiveMA · SAT 1440
- Babson College22%acceptanceHighly selectiveMA · SAT 1420
- Villanova University23%acceptanceHighly selectivePA · SAT 1460
- University of Florida23%acceptanceHighly selectiveFL · SAT 1440
- UC San Diego24%acceptanceHighly selectiveCA · SAT 1490
- University of Richmond24%acceptanceHighly selectiveVA · SAT 1430
- Franklin & Marshall College25%acceptanceHighly selectivePA · SAT 1420
- UC Santa Barbara26%acceptanceSelectiveCA · SAT 1430
- Macalester College28%acceptanceSelectiveMN · SAT 1440
- Cal Poly San Luis Obispo28%acceptanceSelectiveCA · SAT 1420
- Case Western Reserve University30%acceptanceSelectiveOH · SAT 1480
- Brandeis University30%acceptanceSelectiveMA · SAT 1460
- Bryn Mawr College30%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1430
- Kenyon College30%acceptanceSelectiveOH · SAT 1420
- Lafayette College30%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1410
- University of Texas at Austin31%acceptanceSelectiveTX · SAT 1460
- Lehigh University32%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1430
- Oberlin College32%acceptanceSelectiveOH · SAT 1430
- Bucknell University32%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1410
- William & Mary33%acceptanceSelectiveVA · SAT 1480
- Connecticut College33%acceptanceSelectiveCT · SAT 1420
- University of Rochester34%acceptanceSelectiveNY · SAT 1460
- Stevens Institute of Technology36%acceptanceSelectiveNJ · SAT 1450
- Binghamton University36%acceptanceSelectiveNY · SAT 1430
- Occidental College37%acceptanceSelectiveCA · SAT 1420
- University of Georgia43%acceptanceSelectiveGA · SAT 1430
- University of Maryland44%acceptanceSelectiveMD · SAT 1470
- Santa Clara University44%acceptanceSelectiveCA · SAT 1430
- Colorado School of Mines44%acceptanceSelectiveCO · SAT 1420
- University of Illinois45%acceptanceSelectiveIL · SAT 1480
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute47%acceptanceSelectiveNY · SAT 1460
- University of Washington48%acceptanceSelectiveWA · SAT 1450
- University of Wisconsin49%acceptanceSelectiveWI · SAT 1440
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute49%acceptanceSelectiveMA · SAT 1440
- George Washington University49%acceptanceSelectiveDC · SAT 1420
- Southern Methodist University52%acceptanceModerately selectiveTX · SAT 1440
- Ohio State University53%acceptanceModerately selectiveOH · SAT 1430
- Purdue University53%acceptanceModerately selectiveIN · SAT 1430
- Brigham Young University59%acceptanceModerately selectiveUT · SAT 1420
- Rutgers University68%acceptanceModerately selectiveNJ · SAT 1410
- University of Minnesota75%acceptanceModerately selectiveMN · SAT 1410
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Acceptance rates and admitted test ranges reflect publicly reported data (U.S. Department of Education / NCES IPEDS / Common Data Sets) and are rounded. Estimates from CollegeCalcAI are a planning tool computed by a fixed, transparent model, not a guarantee of any admission decision.