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Colleges With the Highest SAT Scores

The colleges whose admitted students have the highest average SAT scores.

How this list is ranked

Ranked by the average SAT score of admitted students, highest first. Federal admissions data.

Ranked by Average SAT
Schools on this list 100
Source Federal data, same records as every school page

SAT in the table is the ranking number. Admit rate and net price are for context.

Rank School Admit Net price SAT
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 4.5% $20,111 1520-1580 See record
2 University of Chicago Chicago, IL 4.5% $14,860 1510-1580 See record
3 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 4.6% $6,128 1510-1580 See record
4 Stanford University Stanford, CA 3.6% $13,807 1510-1580 See record
5 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 3.6% $19,066 1510-1580 See record
6 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 5.4% $28,699 1510-1570 See record
7 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 6.4% $18,809 1520-1570 See record
8 Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY 4.0% $21,590 1510-1580 See record
9 Rice University Houston, TX 8.0% $13,370 1510-1570 See record
10 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 5.9% $15,846 1500-1570 See record
11 Duke University Durham, NC 5.7% $29,612 1500-1570 See record
12 Brown University Providence, RI 5.4% $25,184 1510-1580 See record
13 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 11.7% $31,944 1500-1570 See record
14 Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA 12.7% $35,924 1500-1570 See record
15 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 8.8% $28,690 1500-1570 See record
16 Yale University New Haven, CT 3.9% $23,777 1470-1570 See record
17 Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 5.4% $29,519 1500-1570 See record
18 Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA 7.5% $23,149 1490-1560 See record
19 Pomona College Claremont, CA 7.1% $19,285 1490-1560 See record
20 Northwestern University Evanston, IL 7.7% $29,167 1510-1570 See record
21 Amherst College Amherst, MA 9.0% $23,367 1490-1580 See record
22 Williams College Williamstown, MA 8.3% $17,716 1490-1570 See record
23 Washington University in St Louis St. Louis, MO 12.1% $21,786 1500-1570 See record
24 Claremont McKenna College Claremont, CA 9.6% $28,849 1470-1560 See record
25 Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME 7.1% $14,398 1470-1550 See record
26 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 11.3% $26,780 1455-1560 See record
27 Emory University Atlanta, GA 10.7% $22,585 1470-1550 See record
28 New York University New York, NY 9.2% $37,050 1480-1560 See record
29 Barnard College New York, NY 8.8% $28,800 1470-1560 See record
30 Emory University-Oxford College Oxford, GA 13.1% $37,920 1470-1550 See record
31 Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Needham, MA 25% $25,171 1493-1558 See record
32 Wellesley College Wellesley, MA 14.1% $25,496 1460-1560 See record
33 Carleton College Northfield, MN 20% $25,407 1450-1560 See record
34 Tufts University Medford, MA 11.5% $39,998 1470-1560 See record
35 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 37% $41,190 1430-1540 See record
36 Haverford College Haverford, PA 12.4% $25,314 1460-1550 See record
37 Colgate University Hamilton, NY 13.9% $28,786 1430-1540 See record
38 Middlebury College Middlebury, VT 10.8% $31,483 1445-1550 See record
39 Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 16.4% $41,704 1440-1540 See record
40 Hamilton College Clinton, NY 13.6% $28,985 1450-1550 See record
41 Colby College Waterville, ME 7.1% $17,180 1460-1550 See record
42 Wesleyan University Middletown, CT 16.5% $30,177 1415-1540 See record
43 Jewish Theological Seminary of America New York, NY 49% $43,195 1440-1580 See record
44 Smith College Northampton, MA 21% $27,579 1420-1540 See record
45 Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 14.0% $23,781 1430-1540 See record
46 Northeastern University Boston, MA 5.2% $30,915 1440-1540 See record
47 University of Richmond University of Richmond, VA 22% $31,309 1410-1530 See record
48 Webb Institute Glen Cove, NY 14.0% $73,043 1430-1530 See record
49 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 9.8% $32,740 1450-1550 See record
50 Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 18.6% $39,343 1450-1550 See record
51 Scripps College Claremont, CA 38% $36,294 1440-1540 See record
52 University of Rochester Rochester, NY 40% $29,278 1410-1540 See record
53 Georgetown University Washington, DC 12.9% $40,815 1390-1550 See record
54 Grinnell College Grinnell, IA 14.5% $17,648 1410-1540 See record
55 University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA 16.8% $21,565 1410-1540 See record
56 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta, GA 14.1% $12,116 1370-1540 See record
57 Boston University Boston, MA 11.1% $24,402 1420-1530 See record
58 Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC 22% $28,719 1410-1520 See record
59 Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI 18.7% $50,507 1396-1530 See record
60 University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD 45% $15,678 1400-1530 See record
61 William & Mary Williamsburg, VA 34% $19,096 1400-1530 See record
62 Northeastern University Oakland Oakland, CA 16.7% $25,181 1420-1520 See record
63 Davidson College Davidson, NC 13.4% $17,379 1400-1530 See record
64 Bates College Lewiston, ME 13.3% $29,351 1420-1530 See record
65 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI 15.6% $13,138 1360-1530 See record
66 Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA 36% $26,441 1380-1530 See record
67 Brandeis University Waltham, MA 41% $35,736 1390-1520 See record
68 Villanova University Villanova, PA 27% $43,756 1395-1510 See record
69 Babson College Wellesley, MA 17.1% $40,514 1390-1530 See record
70 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 63% $36,228 1375-1510 See record
71 Occidental College Los Angeles, CA 44% $38,263 1380-1520 See record
72 Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA 14.0% $39,949 1400-1520 See record
73 Oberlin College Oberlin, OH 34% $38,645 1360-1520 See record
74 Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 48% $41,346 1380-1505 See record
75 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL 42% $14,355 1310-1520 See record
76 Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA 26% $36,931 1370-1500 See record
77 Macalester College Saint Paul, MN 29% $32,149 1350-1510 See record
78 Simpson College Indianola, IA 86% $21,936 1440 See record
79 Soka University of America Aliso Viejo, CA 43% $18,260 1333-1510 See record
80 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 15.3% $11,655 1390-1530 See record
81 Reed College Portland, OR 25% $33,013 1290-1520 See record
82 George Washington University Washington, DC 47% $36,586 1350-1500 See record
83 Connecticut College New London, CT 37% $36,175 1350-1500 See record
84 Kenyon College Gambier, OH 31% $38,512 1358-1503 See record
85 Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 63% $40,892 1340-1490 See record
86 University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 45% $17,354 1380-1520 See record
87 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IN 77% $42,513 1320-1500 See record
88 Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA 48% $50,062 1350-1490 See record
89 St. John's College Santa Fe, NM 53% $26,674 1290-1460 See record
90 Yeshiva University New York, NY 56% $49,965 1340-1510 See record
91 Lafayette College Easton, PA 31% $34,433 1350-1500 See record
92 University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA 60% $22,383 1310-1500 See record
93 Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 49% $18,784 1330-1500 See record
94 Fordham University Bronx, NY 59% $44,338 1320-1480 See record
95 Trinity University San Antonio, TX 26% $23,464 1340-1500 See record
96 Binghamton University Vestal, NY 39% $21,620 1340-1500 See record
97 Hillsdale College Hillsdale, MI 21% - 1320-1490 See record
98 Trinity College Hartford, CT 29% $34,832 1298-1470 See record
99 University of Miami Coral Gables, FL 18.9% $37,244 1320-1480 See record
100 Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO 61% $28,690 1320-1480 See record