Built by MIT Lincoln Laboratory engineers, Berkeley, University of California admissions officers, and Ivy League counselors. Proud partner of The Haq Foundation.
AdmissionsOS

Test-Optional and Test-Blind Colleges

These schools either do not require SAT or ACT scores (test-optional) or do not consider them at all (test-blind). Strong schools are listed first, so you can build a competitive list without a test score.

How this list is ranked

These schools either do not require SAT or ACT scores (test-optional) or do not consider them at all (test-blind). Strong schools are listed first, so you can build a competitive list without a test score.

Schools on this list 50
Source Federal data, same records as every school page

Admit rate, net price, and SAT in the table are for context. Rank order follows the method above, not those columns.

Rank School Admit Net price SAT
1 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 4.6% $6,128 1510-1580 See record
2 Duke University Durham, NC 5.7% $29,612 1500-1570 See record
3 Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY 4.0% $21,590 1510-1580 See record
4 University of Chicago Chicago, IL 4.5% $14,860 1510-1580 See record
5 Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME 7.1% $14,398 1470-1550 See record
6 Amherst College Amherst, MA 9.0% $23,367 1490-1580 See record
7 Hamilton College Clinton, NY 13.6% $28,985 1450-1550 See record
8 Williams College Williamstown, MA 8.3% $17,716 1490-1570 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 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 11.3% $26,780 1455-1560 See record
12 Washington University in St Louis St. Louis, MO 12.1% $21,786 1500-1570 See record
13 Emory University Atlanta, GA 10.7% $22,585 1470-1550 See record
14 Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA 7.5% $23,149 1490-1560 See record
15 New York University New York, NY 9.2% $37,050 1480-1560 See record
16 University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA 16.8% $21,565 1410-1540 See record
17 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 9.8% $32,740 1450-1550 See record
18 Tufts University Medford, MA 11.5% $39,998 1470-1560 See record
19 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL 42% $14,355 1310-1520 See record
20 University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 45% $17,354 1380-1520 See record
21 Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 16.4% $41,704 1440-1540 See record
22 Boston University Boston, MA 11.1% $24,402 1420-1530 See record
23 Northeastern University Boston, MA 5.2% $30,915 1440-1540 See record
24 Texas A&M University-College Station College Station, TX 57% $21,315 1150-1400 See record
25 Babson College Wellesley, MA 17.1% $40,514 1390-1530 See record
26 Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA 26% $36,931 1370-1500 See record
27 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 52% $25,097 1210-1440 See record
28 University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA 60% $22,383 1310-1500 See record
29 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN 80% $16,778 1300-1500 See record
30 Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA 14.0% $39,949 1400-1520 See record
31 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA 61% $32,875 1240-1420 See record
32 Miami University-Oxford Oxford, OH 75% $28,384 1220-1390 See record
33 Clemson University Clemson, SC 38% $22,253 1240-1410 See record
34 Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 63% $40,892 1340-1490 See record
35 University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO 78% $25,346 1240-1430 See record
36 University of New Hampshire-Main Campus Durham, NH 88% $23,805 1090-1330 See record
37 University of Vermont Burlington, VT 65% $19,343 1290-1440 See record
38 Northern Illinois University Dekalb, IL 70% $13,391 - See record
39 Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Needham, MA 25% $25,171 1493-1558 See record
40 Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 14.0% $23,781 1430-1540 See record
41 Pomona College Claremont, CA 7.1% $19,285 1490-1560 See record
42 Barnard College New York, NY 8.8% $28,800 1470-1560 See record
43 University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA 11.0% $13,481 - See record
44 University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 9.0% $12,548 - See record
45 Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA 12.7% $35,924 1500-1570 See record
46 Villanova University Villanova, PA 27% $43,756 1395-1510 See record
47 Soka University of America Aliso Viejo, CA 43% $18,260 1333-1510 See record
48 Wellesley College Wellesley, MA 14.1% $25,496 1460-1560 See record
49 Middlebury College Middlebury, VT 10.8% $31,483 1445-1550 See record
50 Claremont McKenna College Claremont, CA 9.6% $28,849 1470-1560 See record