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
16%
Most selective
California Institute of Technology
3% acceptance
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100 schools
- California Institute of Technology3%acceptanceMost selectiveCA · SAT 1580
- Harvard University4%acceptanceMost selectiveMA · SAT 1580
- Stanford University4%acceptanceMost selectiveCA · SAT 1570
- Yale University4%acceptanceMost selectiveCT · SAT 1570
- University of Chicago4%acceptanceMost selectiveIL · SAT 1570
- Columbia University4%acceptanceMost selectiveNY · SAT 1560
- Princeton University5%acceptanceMost selectiveNJ · SAT 1570
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology5%acceptanceMost selectiveMA · SAT 1570
- Brown University5%acceptanceMost selectiveRI · SAT 1560
- Dartmouth College5%acceptanceMost selectiveNH · SAT 1560
- University of Pennsylvania5%acceptanceMost selectivePA · SAT 1560
- Northeastern University5%acceptanceMost selectiveMA · SAT 1530
- Duke University6%acceptanceMost selectiveNC · SAT 1570
- Vanderbilt University6%acceptanceMost selectiveTN · SAT 1560
- Johns Hopkins University6%acceptanceMost selectiveMD · SAT 1560
- Pomona College7%acceptanceMost selectiveCA · SAT 1540
- Swarthmore College7%acceptanceMost selectivePA · SAT 1530
- Bowdoin College7%acceptanceMost selectiveME · SAT 1520
- Colby College7%acceptanceMost selectiveME · SAT 1500
- Northwestern University8%acceptanceMost selectiveIL · SAT 1560
- Rice University8%acceptanceMost selectiveTX · SAT 1560
- Williams College8%acceptanceMost selectiveMA · SAT 1530
- Cornell University9%acceptanceMost selectiveNY · SAT 1550
- Amherst College9%acceptanceMost selectiveMA · SAT 1540
- New York University9%acceptanceMost selectiveNY · SAT 1530
- UCLA9%acceptanceMost selectiveCA · SAT 1510
- University of Southern California10%acceptanceMost selectiveCA · SAT 1530
- Claremont McKenna College10%acceptanceMost selectiveCA · SAT 1520
- University of Notre Dame11%acceptanceHighly selectiveIN · SAT 1550
- University of California, Berkeley11%acceptanceHighly selectiveCA · SAT 1530
- Tufts University11%acceptanceHighly selectiveMA · SAT 1530
- Emory University11%acceptanceHighly selectiveGA · SAT 1520
- Boston University11%acceptanceHighly selectiveMA · SAT 1500
- Middlebury College11%acceptanceHighly selectiveVT · SAT 1490
- Carnegie Mellon University12%acceptanceHighly selectivePA · SAT 1550
- Washington University in St. Louis12%acceptanceHighly selectiveMO · SAT 1550
- Haverford College12%acceptanceHighly selectivePA · SAT 1500
- Georgetown University13%acceptanceHighly selectiveDC · SAT 1520
- Davidson College13%acceptanceHighly selectiveNC · SAT 1470
- Bates College13%acceptanceHighly selectiveME · SAT 1470
- Georgia Tech14%acceptanceHighly selectiveGA · SAT 1530
- Tulane University14%acceptanceHighly selectiveLA · SAT 1500
- Hamilton College14%acceptanceHighly selectiveNY · SAT 1500
- Wellesley College14%acceptanceHighly selectiveMA · SAT 1500
- Washington and Lee University14%acceptanceHighly selectiveVA · SAT 1470
- Colgate University14%acceptanceHighly selectiveNY · SAT 1460
- U.S. Air Force Academy14%acceptanceHighly selectiveCO · SAT 1410
- University of North Carolina15%acceptanceHighly selectiveNC · SAT 1470
- Grinnell College15%acceptanceHighly selectiveIA · SAT 1470
- Boston College16%acceptanceHighly selectiveMA · SAT 1520
- University of Michigan16%acceptanceHighly selectiveMI · SAT 1520
- Wesleyan University16%acceptanceHighly selectiveCT · SAT 1490
- University of Virginia17%acceptanceHighly selectiveVA · SAT 1510
- Babson College17%acceptanceHighly selectiveMA · SAT 1420
- Colorado College18%acceptanceHighly selectiveCO · SAT 1440
- Vassar College19%acceptanceHighly selectiveNY · SAT 1490
- University of Miami19%acceptanceHighly selectiveFL · SAT 1480
- Carleton College20%acceptanceHighly selectiveMN · SAT 1510
- Smith College21%acceptanceHighly selectiveMA · SAT 1440
- Wake Forest University22%acceptanceHighly selectiveNC · SAT 1490
- University of Richmond22%acceptanceHighly selectiveVA · SAT 1430
- University of Florida24%acceptanceHighly selectiveFL · SAT 1440
- Lehigh University26%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1430
- UC San Diego27%acceptanceSelectiveCA · SAT 1490
- University of Texas at Austin27%acceptanceSelectiveTX · SAT 1460
- Villanova University27%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1460
- Franklin & Marshall College28%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1420
- Macalester College29%acceptanceSelectiveMN · SAT 1440
- Bryn Mawr College29%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1430
- UC Irvine29%acceptanceSelectiveCA · SAT 1420
- Bucknell University29%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1410
- Cal Poly San Luis Obispo31%acceptanceSelectiveCA · SAT 1420
- Kenyon College31%acceptanceSelectiveOH · SAT 1420
- Lafayette College31%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1410
- UC Santa Barbara33%acceptanceSelectiveCA · SAT 1430
- William & Mary34%acceptanceSelectiveVA · SAT 1480
- Oberlin College34%acceptanceSelectiveOH · SAT 1430
- Case Western Reserve University37%acceptanceSelectiveOH · SAT 1480
- Connecticut College37%acceptanceSelectiveCT · SAT 1420
- University of Georgia38%acceptanceSelectiveGA · SAT 1430
- University of Washington39%acceptanceSelectiveWA · SAT 1450
- Binghamton University39%acceptanceSelectiveNY · SAT 1430
- University of Rochester40%acceptanceSelectiveNY · SAT 1460
- Brandeis University41%acceptanceSelectiveMA · SAT 1460
- University of Illinois42%acceptanceSelectiveIL · SAT 1480
- Occidental College44%acceptanceSelectiveCA · SAT 1420
- University of Maryland45%acceptanceSelectiveMD · SAT 1470
- University of Wisconsin45%acceptanceSelectiveWI · SAT 1440
- George Washington University47%acceptanceSelectiveDC · SAT 1420
- Stevens Institute of Technology48%acceptanceSelectiveNJ · SAT 1450
- Santa Clara University48%acceptanceSelectiveCA · SAT 1430
- Purdue University50%acceptanceSelectiveIN · SAT 1430
- Rutgers University58%acceptanceModerately selectiveNJ · SAT 1410
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute60%acceptanceModerately selectiveMA · SAT 1440
- Ohio State University61%acceptanceModerately selectiveOH · SAT 1430
- Colorado School of Mines61%acceptanceModerately selectiveCO · SAT 1420
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute63%acceptanceModerately selectiveNY · SAT 1460
- Southern Methodist University63%acceptanceModerately selectiveTX · SAT 1440
- Brigham Young University68%acceptanceModerately selectiveUT · SAT 1420
- University of Minnesota80%acceptanceAccessibleMN · 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.