SAT/ACT Score and Ranking Comparison of National Universities

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<p>I am not sure whether this might be a more or less meaninful comparison of SAT scores. See this: </p>

<p><a href="http://education.yahoo.com/college/essentials/;_ylt=ApBHr6NsQiA_cMVFC2GWMOTak7MF%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://education.yahoo.com/college/essentials/;_ylt=ApBHr6NsQiA_cMVFC2GWMOTak7MF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>which gives SAT data in the form of what % of students have scores above the 500, 600 and 700 centiles. It appears to come from common data set information. For OP's list of top 20 schools based on average SAT, the % of students scoring above 700 mark in CR and Math, respectively, is as follows:</p>

<p>1 Cal Tech: 77/96
2 Harvard: NR<br>
3 Yale: 78/78
4 Princeton: 73/74
5 MIT: 68/92
6 Duke: 63/68
7 Dartmouth: 65/70
7 Wash U StL: 60/76
9 Stanford: 59/67
9 Brown: 64 /66
11 Rice: 57/63
12 U Chicago: 61/57
13 U Penn: 54/69
13 Columbia: NR
15 Northwestern: 53/63
15 Tufts: 56/59
17 Carnegie Mellon: 33/71
18 J Hopkins: 40/60
18 Georgetown: 53/51
20 Cornell: 38/59</p>