Looking further back, colleges compared to each other still differently circa 1960 (Life, 3 Oct 1960):
By SAT Score Tiers
Amherst
Carleton
Columbia
Harvard
Haverford
Princeton
Reed
Rice
Swarthmore
Williams
Yale
Brandeis
Brown
Chicago
Cornell
Dartmouth
Hamilton
Johns Hopkins
Lehigh
Oberlin
Rochester
Stanford
Antioch
Bowdoin
Duke
Kenyon
Michigan
Middlebury
Northwestern
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Tufts
Union
UC-Berkeley
Sewanee
Colgate
Denison
Grinnell
Knox
Lawrence
Muhlenberg
Occidental
UColorado
Beloit
NYU
Pittsburgh
Southern Methodist
Syracuse
Virginia
Vanderbilt