Universities with the highest SAT scores

Ranked by the median SAT score of admitted students, which is a more useful number than an acceptance rate if you are trying to work out whether your score is in range. Median means half of admitted students scored below it - so a score under the median is not a rejection, it is a reason to be strong somewhere else.

116 universities listed. 116 of them publish median sat; where a school does not publish one we say so rather than estimating it.

UniversityLocationMedian SAT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1560
University of Chicago 1554
City University of New York New York City, New York 1553
Columbia University in the City of New York New York City, New York, NY 1553
Johns Hopkins University 1553
Princeton University 1553
Rice University 1553
Stanford University 1553
University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 1553
Vanderbilt University 1549
Duke University 1548
Brown University 1546
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1546
Harvey Mudd College 1545
Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 1540
Cornell University 1535
Dartmouth College 1534
Pomona College California 1534
Swarthmore College 1534
Yale University New Haven, Connecticut 1534
Amherst College 1533
Northwestern University 1533
Williams College 1533
Washington University in St Louis St. Louis, Missouri, MO 1530
Claremont McKenna College 1527
Barnard College New York City, New York 1520
Bowdoin College 1520
Emory University 1520
Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Needham, Massachusetts, MA 1520
New York University 1520
Olin College of Engineering Needham, Massachusetts 1520
University of Notre Dame 1520
Wellesley College 1520
Carleton College 1517
Case Western Reserve University 1513
Haverford College Haverford, PA 1513
Tufts University 1513
Colgate University Hamilton, New York 1508
Middlebury College 1508
Boston College 1507
Hamilton College 1506
Colby College 1501
Wesleyan University Middletown, Connecticut 1501
Jewish Theological Seminary of America New York, NY 1500
Smith College 1500
The Jewish Theological Seminary 1500
Washington and Lee University Lexington, Virginia, VA 1498
Washington & Lee University Lexington, Virginia 1498
Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts 1497
University of Richmond Richmond, Virginia 1497
Webb Institute Glen Cove, NY 1496
University of Southern California 1495
Vassar College 1494
Scripps College Claremont, California, CA 1492
University of Rochester 1488
Georgetown University 1487
Grinnell College 1486
Boston University 1480
Georgia Institute of Technology 1480
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta, GA 1480
University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA 1480
Wake Forest University 1475
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Providence, Rhode Island 1473
University of Maryland, College Park 1473
University of Maryland - University College Adelphi, Maryland 1473
William & Mary Williamsburg, VA 1473
Northeastern University Oakland Oakland, California 1472
Davidson College 1469
Bates College 1468
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor 1465
Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, Massachusetts 1463
Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts 1462
Villanova University Villanova, Pennsylvania 1460
Babson College Wellesley, Massachusetts 1457
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1456
Occidental College Los Angeles, California 1452
Tulane University 1448
Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA 1448
Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio 1447
Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey 1446
Lehigh University Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1440
Macalester College Saint Paul, Minnesota 1440
Simpson College Indianola, Iowa 1440
Soka University of America Aliso Viejo, California, CA 1440
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Illinois 1440
University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 1439
Reed College Portland, Oregon 1437
George Washington University Washington, DC 1433
Connecticut College New London, Connecticut 1432
Kenyon College Gambier, Ohio 1429
Southern Methodist University 1428
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, Indiana 1427
University of Wisconsin - Madison 1427
Santa Clara University Santa Clara, California 1426
Yeshiva University 1426
Lafayette College Easton, Pennsylvania 1424
University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, Massachusetts 1423
University of Massachusetts at Amherst Amherst, Massachusetts 1423
State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, New York 1419
Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York 1419
Fordham University New York City, New York 1418
Trinity University 1416
Binghamton University Vestal, New York, NY 1415
Hillsdale College Hillsdale, Michigan 1415
Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut, CT 1415
University of Miami Coral Gables, Florida 1415
Colorado School of Mines Golden, Colorado 1412
Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 1410
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art New York City, New York 1410
Denison University Granville, Ohio 1410
Rutgers University 1410
Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ 1410
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art New York City, New York 1410
Whitman College Walla Walla, Washington 1410
Skidmore College 1405
University of Florida 1403

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