<p>Tuition Acceptance Rate SAT / ACT
1) Yale University $40,500 7.88% 1590 / 35
2) Princeton University $37,000 8.08% 1580 / 35
3) Franklin W. Olin $39,450 30.16% 1530 / 35
4) Dartmouth College $42,996 11.68% 1570 / 34
4) Columbia University $45,290 9.54% 1570 / 34
6) University of Chicago $42,783 18.82% 1560 / 34
6) Pomona College $39,883 14.74% 1560 / 34
8) Stanford University $40,569 7.31% 1550 / 34
9) Amherst College $42,898 15.31% 1540 / 34
9) Rice University $35,551 21.29% 1540 / 34
9) Washington University/St. Louis $41,992 21.19% 1540 / 34
12)Duke University $41,958 16.48% 1530 / 34
12)University of Pennsylvania $42,098 14.26% 1530 / 34
14)Northwestern University $41,983 23.13% 1530 / 33
15)Claremont McKenna College $42,240 17.10% 1510 / 33
15)Cooper Union $39,150 8.38% 1510 / 33
15)Johns Hopkins University $42,280 20.58% 1510 / 33
18)Carleton College $42,942 30.81% 1500 / 33
18)Cornell University $41,541 18.36% 1500 / 33
18)Carnegie Mellon University $43,396 33.32% 1500 / 33
18)Emory University $41,164 28.87% 1500 / 33
18)Bowdoin College $42,816 19.66% 1500 / 33
18)Tufts University $42,962 24.34% 1500 / 33
24)University of Cal-Berkeley $11,767 /$34,645 21.52% 1490 / 33
24)Georgetown University $41,393 20.15% 1490 / 33
24)Haverford College $42,208 25.97% 1490 / 33
27)Wesleyan University $43,674 20.55% 1480 / 33
27)Middlebury College N/A 17.22% 1480 / 33
29)University of So.California $42,818 24.35% 1470 / 33
30)Oberlin College $43,210 30.56% 1470 / 32
31)Brandeis University $41,860 35.42% 1460 / 32
32)Colgate University $42,920 32.99% 1460 / 32
32)Vassar College $44,705 23.61% 1460 / 32
32)Washington & Lee University $41,927 19.10% 1460 / 32
35)Scripps College $41,950 39.10% 1450 / 32
35)Macalester College $42,021 42.55% 1450 / 32
35)Case Western Reserve Univ. $39,120 66.70% 1450 / 32
35)University of Virginia $11,576 /$36,570 32.6% 1450 / 32
39)Barnard College $42,184 27.83% 1440 / 32
39)William and Mary $13,132/ $35,409 31.73% 1440 / 32
40)Wheaton College-IL $28,960 65.97% 1430 / 32
40)Georgia Instit. of Tech. $ 9,652 /$27,862 51.69% 1430 / 32
40)Davidson College $38,866 29.48% 1430 / 32
40)Kenyon College $42,630 39.3% 1430 / 32
40)Boston College $42,204 31.1% 1430 / 32
45)University of Rochester $41,826 37.95% 1420 / 32
46)Rose-Hulman Instit. of Tech. $37,947 65.91% 1410 / 32
46)Colorado College $39,900 33.56% 1410 / 32
46)Bates College N/A 31.81% 1410 / 32
49)University of Tulsa $29,714 39.11% 1400 / 32
50)Tulane University $43,434 25.98% 1400 / 32
51)Hendrix College $34,230 82.88% 1380 / 32
51) University of Miami $39,654 39.22% 1380 / 32
51)US Air Force Academy N/A 13.47% 1380 / 32</p>
<p>Thanks for compiling this!</p>
<p>Not to denigrate your effort, however, but some schools are missing from this list that should probably be on it. I know for sure that my own school has released [info</a> about the class of 2015](<a href=“http://www.reed.edu/ir/admission.html]info”>Admission Statistics - Institutional Research - Reed College) that would tie it with USC/Oberlin, but I don’t see Caltech, MIT, Brown, Williams, Harvey Mudd, Grinnell, Wellesley or Swarthmore either. I’m sure there are some other state schools, like Michigan and UNC-CH, whose 75% scores are above 1380 as well.</p>
<p>Some schools make this information very difficult to obtain, and others just haven’t come out with it yet. So I think your list should definitely be classified as a work in progress at this point.</p>
<p>[College</a> Rankings - Top 100 Ranked Universities for Highest SAT 75th Percentile Scores](<a href=“USA University College Directory - U.S. University Directory - State Universities and College Rankings”>Top 500 Ranked Colleges - Highest SAT 75th Percentile Scores)</p>
<p>(2010 and 2009 scores)</p>
<p>Bear in mind, also, that most of the schools where really high-performing students wind up receive far more SAT score reports than ACT ones.</p>
<p>Though I do see the value of such a list for someone who only intends to take the ACT and wants to know how he/she compares to the students at his/her target schools who also took the ACT.</p>
<p>USC has not released their official numbers for the class that just enrolled. They will not be released until September 21, 2011. These appear to be the numbers from 2009.</p>
<p>small nit, but you know of course, that the two scores are not additive.</p>
<p>I believe USC’s SAT numbers have not changed from last year’s.</p>
<p>This is a great list. Just wondering what is the best way to use this information? The further away my SAT score is from the score posted the less chance I have of acceptance if the only basis was the SAT score? I have been looking at the 25%-75% ranges at schools and if I am above the middle in this range I feel I stand a better chance than if I am below the middle of the range. Am I wrong? Any schools where I am above the 75% I am considering more of a safety. Thanks!</p>
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<p>Why don’t you pass the word on to the adiminstration at the U to release a Common Data Set?</p>
<p>A lot of us are chomping at the bit to analyze its numbers if a CDS were reported. I’d personally like to see a level of uw gpa according to various intervals, and possibly to eyeball a top-10% reporting, C10 v C11.</p>
<p>I’d like to see whatever more detailed SAT information the U would also provide.</p>
<p>I can’t verify most of what USC reports according to the information released by the other side, the high schools that feed USC.</p>
<p>Berkeley’s supposed to be 1510 – <a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/freshmen.asp[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/admissions/freshmen.asp</a></p>
<p>I don’t think that’s matriculated students, RML.</p>
<p>The CDS will report lower mean/median uw grades and lower median 25th and 75th SAT’s. (This is another reason why I’m hoping USC eventually reports one.) </p>
<p>For instance, mean uw grades will be 3.83 or so. Last year, Cal, per this website, reported 3.9+ gpa, but the corresponding 2010-11 CDS reported I think it was 3.84. Simlarly, SAT’s were lowered also.</p>
<p>^ The website says: enrollment estimate as of 5/09/11</p>
<p>But there really has been a substantial improvement of statistical data set for Berkeley this year. And, that’s probably because of the increased number of OOS and Int’l students matriculating in the university this year.</p>
<p>Does it make you smarter if you go to a school with a higher percentage of kids with SAT’s above 1400? With a single digit acceptance rate? I don’t think so, people. There are very smart people at schools well into the list of top 200 schools. People select schools for many reasons, with geography (location/being close to home etc.) being one of the single biggest factors. Financial concerns are another (scholarship offers or cheaper tuition/grants). </p>
<p>Every year the elitists gather like the swallows at Capistrano to crow about their schools stats, scores and rankings…and that somehow they are superior human beings because they went to this or that school. </p>
<p>Its nauseating. And to most employers and normal human beings its really nauseating and indicates a character flaw. </p>
<p>If you got into a top school and have top scores and got a top scholarship, congratulations. Now go about your studies, make friends and disregard all this elitism.</p>
<p>Have a nice day.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt is missing from the list in the OP - 75th percentile ACT 34, SAT Math/CR 1530 last year. Should be listed at 12 with Duke and Penn. Acceptance rate 18%; tuition $41,996.</p>
<p>And sovereigndebt - yes, we know that there are “very smart people” at schools in the top 200, and probably at any institute of higher learning. We know that “very smart people” make the decision about where to go to college based on many factors, including geography and affordability. That doesn’t mean that stats and acceptance rates are meaningless data points, and it also doesn’t mean that posters who consider that information important are elitists.</p>
<p>Might I suggest that there is a more diplomatic way to present your argument than by scolding members who do find this information of interest?</p>
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<p>As a crude rule of thumb, yes.</p>
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<p>You’re right, basically, but of course many other factors come into play.</p>
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<p>No, not necessarily. You need to look at both scores and admit rates. If the average scores are high and the admit rate is below a certain point (maybe 20%), the school becomes a reach (at least) for nearly every applicant regardless of scores. With high scores and rates between 20%-40% (or so), it might be a “match”. You also need to consider costs. If you cannot afford it without significant aid, it’s not a safety.</p>
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<p>Yes, after all, Internationals are the smartest subset. ;)</p>
<p>I think for SAT’s, there will be an improvement, absolutely. But I think uwgpa has shrunk back a bit. This is undoubtedly partially at least because Cal has increased its non-resident enrollment, which might be more score intensive.</p>
<p>Btw, I think I figured one of the reasons why USC reports only on its admissions website rather than reporting a CDS. Not that reporting a CDS imposes some sort of reporting standard. Nor does anything below impose how the calculations are performed; I don’t see anything that would specify calculations in the language other than not converting ACT to SAT and vice-versa. Nor, obviously, does it mention superscoring or not.</p>
<p>Here’s the quote that accompanies C9: </p>
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<p>This still doesn’t explain whether university score profiles should be reported as best of the two; I don’t think it does even though most u’s would report a very large overlap.</p>
<p>For UCLA, 2010-2011 CDS of frosh of entering 2008, 92% of incoming students reported an SATI. 47% reported an ACT. So the total between the two scores is 139%, an approximate overlap of 39%.</p>
<p>If 75% showed one or the other better between the overlap, then ~ 29% would manifest a reporting redundancy, and the u would undoubtedly use the higher score for admissions purposes.</p>
<p>This would be reflected in a hypothetical as follows for admissions; SAT/ACT scores used in specific student admittance and total reported:</p>
<p>SATI: ~ 78% and 92% </p>
<p>ACT Composite: ~ 22% and 47%.</p>
<p>Since UCLA’s SAT ranges among the 25th Percentile seem low, I would imagine the U takes all of the 92% SAT’s and 47% ACT’s and forwards them onto the C9.</p>
<p>If the above were USC’s, I would imagine it would take the 78 and 22% respectively.</p>
<p>That’s my guess wrt how each is trying to portray itself within the USN rankings.</p>
<p>What’s strange is Cal’s CDS for 2010-11 reports on the frosh entering the U in 2010, and UCLA’s CDS for 2010-11 reports on frosh entering in 2008. I’m wondering if they used an old copy and forgot to update the year.</p>
<p>Either way, Cal has an overlap of ACT/SAT of ~ 31%.</p>
<p>For any student looking at these figures and feeling daunted by the level at some of these schools, bear in mind that for the SAT at least, these scores do NOT represent the 75th percentile in composite scores of the student body. The figure is obtained by adding the 75th percentile of math and verbal portions of the SAT which are reported separately and are independent of each other. For example, the proportion of kids scoring 1590 and above at Yale is far smaller (although I imagine still substantial) than 25% as many kids will score 800 on one section but below 790 on another. The same is true of the 25th percentile, there are fewer kids scoring a composite below 1410 (or whatever it is for Yale) than the reported figure would indicate. It is a common mistake to assume these represent composite scores–the information is still useful as a measure of general score strength of a school, but not as a profile of the student body.</p>
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<p>Are you sure those statistics are for matriculated students? Some schools first report the stats for ADMITTED students which tend to be somewhat higher that those of the freshman class, which is what is used in the rankings.</p>
<p>If you’re referring to the link in my original post, then yes, that is the profile of the Reed class of 2015, as it says on the webpage itself. The admission office only released it a few days ago. We don’t usually get this information about the admitted students as a whole.</p>