<p>It is important to keep these in perspective. Very large universities' top 1000 students are probably very close to the midpoint of very small high scoring universities. A Berkeley (which doesn't use Superscoring, so add about 20-25 points to its total) with about 5000 entering freshman will have its top 1000 students very similar in scoring to the top 1000 at just about any of the smaller schools with 1400 as their midpoint.</p>
<p>Stanford and Northwestern (or fill in the name of any larger prestigious university), both being larger than most of the top scoring schools, would also see this broader range of scores.</p>
<p>What you really want to see are GRE, GMAT, LSAT, and MCAT scores. Also, grad schools understand the value of a degree from University X. University X, particularly if a state school, may output a superior product while intaking some dregs.</p>
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The problem with this list is that a lot of schools value other factors a lot more than the SAT. Those schools will be be marked down, just because they probably rejected less qualified students with higher SAT scores.
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<p>The purpose of the thread is to rank schools by SAT scores, not to rank schools holistically, so your post is irrelevant and pointless.</p>
<p>What about Carnegie Classification Research Universities? Or Carnegie Classification Special Focus Institutions--Schools of engineering?
What about colleges where the majority submit ACT scores? Perhaps need another thread for those. But do they appear in these lists?</p>