National universities with the highest ACT scores

<p>National universities with the highest ACT scores</p>

<p>university, ACT composite 75th pecentile</p>

<p>Dartmouth College 34
Harvard University 34
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 34
Rice University 34
Yale University 34
Brandeis University 33
Brown University 33
Columbia University in the City of New York 33
Duke University 33
Emory University 33
Northwestern University 33
Stanford University 33
Tulane University of Louisiana 33
University of Chicago 33
University of Notre Dame 33
University of Pennsylvania 33
Vanderbilt University 33
Washington University in St Louis 33
Carnegie Mellon University 32
Cornell University 32
Georgetown University 32
Johns Hopkins University 32
Tufts University 32
University of Southern California 32
Boston College 31
Case Western Reserve University 31
College of William and Mary 31
New York University 31
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 31
American University 30
Boston University 30
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 30
University of California-Berkeley 30
University of California-Los Angeles 30
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 30
University of Miami 30
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 30
University of Rochester 30
University of Virginia-Main Campus 30
University of Wisconsin-Madison 30
Brigham Young University 29
Marquette University 29
Miami University-Oxford 29
Saint Louis University-Main Campus 29
Southern Methodist University 29
SUNY at Binghamton 29
Syracuse University 29
The University of Texas at Austin 29
University of California-San Diego 29
University of Delaware 29
University of Florida 29
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 29
Clark University 28
Clemson University 28
Fordham University 28
Ohio State University-Main Campus 28
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Main Campus 28
Purdue University-Main Campus 28
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 28
Stevens Institute of Technology 28
Texas A & M University 28
University of California-Santa Barbara 28
University of Colorado at Boulder 28
University of Denver 28
University of Georgia 28
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 28
University of Missouri-Columbia 28
University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus 28
University of Washington-Seattle Campus 28
Auburn University Main Campus 27
Baylor University 27
Indiana University-Bloomington 27
Iowa State University 27
Michigan State University 27
The University of Tennessee 27
University of California-Davis 27
University of California-Irvine 27
University of California-Santa Cruz 27
University of Connecticut 27
University of Iowa 27
University of California-Riverside 23</p>

<p>wow all those publics in a clump in the middle
that's a funny result</p>

<p>I'm surprised to see Dartmouth and Rice at the top. Actually, I've read elsewhere that they value high scores more than do other schools; if you've got a 2300+ SAT score or a 35+ ACT score, you'll be forgiven if you haven't cured cancer.</p>

<p>collegehelp:</p>

<p>would you mind citing the source? The reason I ask is that Berkeley, for example, does not report ACT scores in its CDS.</p>

<p>Yeah Rice! Actually, this doesn't really challenge my current perceptions.</p>

<p>bluebayou-
the data is from the IPEDS website 2005 peer analysis system</p>

<p>got it, thanks.</p>

<p>correction: NOTRE DAME: 34
[Admissions</a> Statistics // Admissions // University of Notre Dame](<a href=“http://admissions.nd.edu/admission-and-application/admissions-statistics]Admissions”>http://admissions.nd.edu/admission-and-application/admissions-statistics)
probably the highest ACT scores in the country…considering it’s in the midwest</p>

<p>MITpwnsnetc: ^^^I think you are reporting the scores of the admitted class, rather than the class that actually enrolls. For many schools, ‘admit’ scores are higher than ‘enrolled’ scores.</p>

<p>CDS reports the class that enrolls.</p>

<p>Very likely midmo is correct.</p>

<p>I wonder how colleges view ACT scores in comparison to SAT scores? This question is personal for me because I had a 2070 SAT score but a 34 on the ACT, do colleges just ignore the SAT or do they look at both for evaluating a candidate? So could a low SAT even with a high ACT hurt?</p>

<p>Here is some additional data (taken from latest online USNWR) for ACT 75th percentile levels and how the student bodies compare based on the depth of the % of students who scored at the 30 or better level. </p>

<p>I think that this is a very good proxy for the current strength of student bodies across America today for colleges ranked in the USNWR Top 50 National Universities and the Top 25 LACs. </p>

<p>ACT 75 , % students scoring 30+ , National University</p>

<p>35 , 99% , Caltech
35 , na , Harvard</p>

<p>34 , 87% , MIT
34 , 83% , Notre Dame
34 , 79% , Columbia
34 , 77% , Princeton
34 , 76% , Northwestern
34 , 72% , Duke
34 , 71% , Rice
34 , 70% , U Penn
34 , 67% , Dartmouth
34 , na , Yale</p>

<p>33 , 80% , Wash U
33 , 70% , Emory
33 , 70% , Vanderbilt
33 , 69% , Stanford
33 , 65% , Johns Hopkins
33 , 63% , Brown
33 , 58% , U Chicago</p>

<p>32 , 76% , Tufts
32 , 62% , Carnegie Mellon
32 , 61% , Brandeis
32 , 58% , Cornell
32 , 57% , USC
32 , 46% , W&M
32 , na , Georgetown
32 , na , Boston Coll</p>

<p>31 , 46% , Case Western
31 , 45% , U Michigan
31 , 45% , NYU
31 , 43% , U Rochester
31 , 38% , Tulane
31 , 37% , Georgia Tech
31 , 36% , U Illinois
31 , 35% , UCLA
31 , 35% , U North Carolina
31 , 27% , Yeshiva
31 , na , Wake Forest</p>

<p>30 , 32% , U Wisconsin</p>

<p>29 , 25% , U Texas
29 , 23% , UCSD
29 , 23% , U Florida
29 , 21% , U Washington
29 , 18% , UC Santa Barbara
29 , 17% , Rensselaer</p>

<p>27 , 10% , UC Davis</p>

<p>na , na , UC Berkeley
na , na , U Virginia
na , na , Lehigh
na , na , UC Irvine</p>

<p>ACT 75 , % students scoring 30+ , LAC</p>

<p>34 , 75% , Amherst
34 , 73% , Pomona</p>

<p>33 , 71% , Middlebury
33 , 71% , Claremont McK
33 , 70% , Bowdoin
33 , 69% , Carleton
33 , 68% , Williams
33 , 66% , Grinnell
33 , 62% , Swarthmore</p>

<p>32 , 63% , Colgate
32 , 59% , Wesleyan
32 , 57% , Wellesley
32 , 56% , Davidson
32 , 54% , Macalester
32 , 46% , Oberlin
32 , na , Vassar</p>

<p>31 , 57% , W&L
31 , 47% , Colby </p>

<p>30 , 29% , Smith
30 , 25% , Bryn Mawr
30 , na , US Military Acad</p>

<p>na , na , Haverford
na , na , Harvey Mudd
na , na , Hamilton
na , na , Bates
na , na , US Naval Acad</p>

<p>It’s funny how quickly data gets outdated. According to the Columbia website, the 75th percentile ACT for admitted students in the class of 2012 is 35.</p>

<p>pbr,
They can both be accurate. My data is for ENROLLED students; yours is for ADMITTED students. One frequently sees this discrepancy and one has to be careful in reading college websites as they often will post their statistics for admitted students in an attempt to make themselves look more selective than is truly the case.</p>

<p>Yes, I was aware that Columbia’s website data is for admitted students (as of May 1). I thought yours was too. USNWR, as well as all the other publications, seem to me to be generally a year or two behind. (Another reason not to put too much stock in those publications.)</p>