<p>To follow up on DSC’s (IMO plausible) contention earlier about the relationship between test scores and ranking, here are the raw numbers for the USNWR Top 50 national universities and Top 20 LACs:</p>
<p>USNWR Rank, School , Avg SAT , Avg ACT , Acceptance Rate
1 Princeton , 1480 , 32 , 10%
2 Harvard , 1490 , 32.5 , 9%
3 Yale , 1485 , na , 9%
4 Stanford , 1440 , 30.5 , 11%
5 U Penn , 1430 , 31 , 18%
5 Caltech , 1520 , na , 17%
7 MIT , 1470 , 32 , 13%
8 Duke , 1445 , 31.5 , 23%
9 Columbia , 1435 , 30.5 , 12%
9 U Chicago , 1425 , 30.5 , 38%
11 Dartmouth , 1450 , 31 , 16%
12 Wash U , 1450 , 31.5 , 21%
12 Cornell , 1385 , 30 , 25%
14 Brown , 1440 , 30 , 14%
14 Northwestern , 1410 , 31 , 30%
14 Johns Hopkins , 1390 , 30 , 27%
17 Rice , 1435 , 32 , 24%
17 Emory , 1385 , 31 , 32%
19 Vanderbilt , 1375 , 30 , 34%
19 Notre Dame , 1395 , 31.5 , 27%
21 UC Berkeley , 1325 , na , 24%
22 Carnegie Mellon , 1395 , 30 , 34%
23 U Virginia , 1325 , 28.5 , 37%
23 Georgetown , 1390 , 29.5 , 22%
25 UCLA , 1295 , 27 , 26%
25 U Michigan , 1315 , 29 , 47%
27 USC , 1370 , 30 , 25%
28 U North Carolina , 1295 , 27.5 , 34%
28 Tufts , 1410 , 30.5 , 27%
30 Wake Forest , 1320 , na , 43%
31 Lehigh , 1310 , na , 39%
31 Brandeis , 1360 , 29.5 , 36%
33 W&M , 1340 , 29.5 , 32%
34 NYU , 1310 , 29 , 36%
35 U Rochester , 1325 , 28.5 , 45%
35 Georgia Tech , 1315 , 28 , 69%
35 Boston Coll , 1335 , na , 29%
38 U Wisconsin , 0 , 28 , 58%
38 UCSD , 1250 , 26 , 49%
38 U Illinois , 0 , 27.5 , 65%
41 Case Western , 1330 , 28.5 , 67%
42 U Washington , 1190 , 25.5 , 68%
42 UC Davis , 1155 , na , 68%
44 Rensselaer , 1320 , 27 , 67%
44 U Texas , 1245 , 26 , 49%
44 UC Santa Barbara , 1200 , 25 , 53%
44 UC Irvine , 1185 , na , 60%
48 Penn State , 1180 , na , 58%
49 U Florida , 1250 , 26.5 , 48%
50 Syracuse , 1225 , 26.5 , 51%
50 Tulane , 1322.5 , 29 , 38%</p>
<p>USNWR Rank, School , Avg SAT , Acceptance Rate<br>
1 Williams , 1420 , 19%<br>
2 Amherst , 1430 , 19%<br>
3 Swarthmore , 1425 , 19%<br>
4 Wellesley , 1390 , 36%<br>
5 Carleton , 1410 , 32%<br>
5 Middlebury , 1375 , 22%<br>
7 Pomona , 1445 , 18%<br>
7 Bowdoin , 1390 , 22%<br>
9 Davidson , 1345 , 30%<br>
10 Haverford , 1395 , 26%<br>
11 Claremont McK , 1400 , 22%<br>
11 Wesleyan , 1385 , 28%<br>
11 Grinnell , 1355 , 45%<br>
11 Vassar , 1375 , 30%<br>
15 Harvey Mudd , 1485 , 30%<br>
15 W&L , 1885 , 27%<br>
17 Smith , 1255 , 53%<br>
17 Hamilton , 1360 , 33%<br>
17 Colgate , 1345 , 28%<br>
20 US Naval Acad , 1265 , 14%<br>
20 Oberlin , 1375 , 34%</p>