<p>Rank School Name ACT 75th Percentile Scores
1 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Information 35
2 Pomona College Information 34
3 Swarthmore College Information 34
4 Dartmouth College Information 34
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Information 34
6 Yale University Information 34
7 Princeton University Information 34
8 Harvard University Information 34
9 Washington University in St Louis Information 33
10 Grinnell College Information 33
11 Duke University Information 33
12 Emory University Information 33
13 Middlebury College Information 33
14 University of Notre Dame Information 33
15 University of Pennsylvania Information 33
16 University of Chicago Information 33
17 Amherst College Information 33
18 Rice University Information 33
19 Stanford University Information 33
20 Claremont McKenna College Information 33 </p>
<p>Highest SAT 75th Percentile Scores</p>
<p>Rank School Name SAT 75th Percentile Scores
1 Eastern Washington University Information 1590
2 Princeton University Information 1590
3 Harvard University Information 1590
4 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Information 1580
5 Yale University Information 1580
6 California Institute of Technology Information 1570
7 Harvey Mudd College Information 1560
8 Duke University Information 1560
9 University of Chicago Information 1560
10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Information 1560
11 Dartmouth College Information 1550
12 Stanford University Information 1540
13 Columbia University in the City of New York Information 1540
14 Washington University in St Louis Information 1530
15 Swarthmore College Information 1530
16 Amherst College Information 1530
17 Rice University Information 1530
18 Brown University Information 1530
19 Pomona College Information 1520
20 Williams College Information 1520</p>
<p>There are some problems with the EWU data. </p>
<p>In its 2006 Common Data Set, it did not even supply 75-25 SAT or ACT figures. It did have its average SATs, which were in the high 400s for both CR and M (and if 25% of your students have 1590 SATs, the others would ALL have to be around the 880 line -- its 25th percentile -- to produce that average). </p>
<p>In its 2005 Common Data Set, its 75th percentile SAT scores were 550 CR 560 M. Which makes sense.</p>
<p>EWU has a six-year graduation rate under 50%. If 25% of its entering class has 1590 SATs, it is doing an impressively horrible job. </p>
<p>Anyway, it's not fair to rag on EWU because of that other web site's inexplicable error.</p>
<p>Note also that there probably aren't 1,500 kids per class nationwide who actually score 1590 on their CR and M SAT Is, even with superscoring. I don't think 650 of them are at Harvard and Princeton. (Nor another 400 at Eastern Washington.) Adding up the 75th percentile levels for CR and M doesn't mean that the sum is the college's 75th percentile level for the combination of them.</p>
<p>Now, the numbers on the Chicago website are evidently actual combined scores, as opposed to the sum of CR and M scores individually (the usual US News approach -- and ordinarily the only number you can derive from the CDS, which lists CR and M scores separately). Adding up the CR and M scores produces a slightly higher 75% number than the actual combined score -- but certainly not a difference of 50 or 60 points (more like 20). Maybe the 1560 was for admitted students, rather than enrolled (the usual measure)?</p>
<p>I didnt mean to rag on EWU- I don't have anything against Cheney ( the town ;) )</p>
<p>HOwever the quoted list could be cobbled together by asking a parent who has been reading college admission articles-what are some top schools- it doesn't really tell me much about the education and program at those institutions</p>
<p>WesDad: Why do you think the combined score would be only 20 points lower than the sum of the separate scores? I'm not going to look up the SAT tables for this, but my memory is that there may be 8,000 total 800 scores on CR and M, separately, but only about 1,000 combined 1600 scores (single test). You would have to go down to the 1540 level or so to find the top 8,000 combined scores, and you probably have a meaningful number of 800-scorers down as low as 1450 combined.</p>
<p>Given admissions dynamics, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Chicago had a somewhat larger percentage of students with big gaps in their CR-M scores compared to, say, Harvard. It would be really surprising if the 75th percentile of combined scores was only slightly below the sum of the 75th percentile of separate scores.</p>
<p>emerald: You weren't ragging on EWU; I was (with the crack about its 49% 6-year graduation rate).</p>
<p>The problem with the SAT tables is that they are for single sitting only; virtually all private schools use superscoring. I take your point about the "imbalance" but it is mitigated by superscoring.</p>
<p>As I recall, the results were similar for other schools that I have seen that post these kinds of data. Of course, the numbers could be different at a particular school, like Chicago, but I have not seen anything that would suggest there would be a difference of 50-60 points at the 75% level.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure Mudd also has a 34 ACT score. Although, they didn't begin accepting the ACT until last year. But, no one really cares about the ACT anyway ;).</p>
<p>I agree with everyone else that EWU is definitely not first. OP, why would you not even question that when you saw it?</p>
<p>Another way to looks at the top 20 is by the combined scores of the 25th percentile. This shows how strong the bottom of the class is. (I only have SAT data)</p>
<p>Top 24:SAT - 25th percentile
1470 California Institute of Technology
1410 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
1400 Yale University
1390 Harvard University
1380 Harvey Mudd College
1380 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1380 Duke University
1370 Princeton University
1370 University of Chicago
1370 Washington University in St Louis
1370 Pomona College
1350 Dartmouth College
1350 Brown University
1350 Webb Institute
1340 Columbia University in the City of New York
1340 Stanford University
1340 Tufts University
1330 Amherst College
1330 Rice University
1330 Carleton College
1320 Swarthmore College
1320 Williams College
1320 Northwestern University
1320 Wellesley College</p>
<p>Take the list with a grain of salt. I know that Northwestern had 33 also and had higher percentage of students with >30 than Grinnell, CMC, and Chicago, Emory...etc.</p>
<p>I'm a little confused about the numbers for University of Pennsylvania. If you add up the 75% SAT scores for CR and Math on their website, it equals 1530, yet when you look at the data on this website, it says 1490. Where are they getting their numbers from?</p>
<p>midatlmom -- Not speaking to the discepancy between 1490 and 1530. But I do note that the 1530 number on the Penn website appears to be for admitted students, rather than for enrolled students (the number you get from US News etc.) The SAT scores for enrolled students are always somewhat lower (with the possible exception of H,Y,M).</p>