Top 20 US Colleges 2021 SAT & ACT Test Scores Comparison Table

The average SAT score of Top 20 US Colleges is 1,512 and the average ACT score is 99. California Institute of Technology has the highest scores on both SAT and ACT tests with 1,555 (SAT) and 36 (ACT). Below table summarizes and compares the SAT and ACT scores for Top 20 US Colleges. The SAT score is the summation of Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (RW), Mathematics (MT), and Writing(WR) unless otherwise denoted. For ACT score, it is a summation of Composite(CM), Mathematics (MT), English (EN), and Writing (WR) unless otherwise denoted. You want to click a column name to sort table by the column.

*25% percentile; The lower number is for the 25^th percentile of students who enrolled in the school.

**75% percentile:The upper number is for the 75^th percentile of students who enrolled in the school.

Top 20 US Colleges 2021 SAT & ACT Test Scores Comparison Table

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2021 SAT & ACT Test Scores Comparison Table
School Name	Required to Apply	SAT 25% Percentile	SAT 75% Percentile	ACT 25% Percentile	ACT 75% Percentile
Brown University Providence, RI		1,440	1,560	97	106
California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	Required	1,530	1,580	105	108
Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	Required	1,460	1,570	98	106
Cornell University Ithaca, NY		1,400	1,540	96	105
Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	Required	1,440	1,560	95	106
Duke University Durham, NC	Required	1,470	1,570	101	106
Harvard University Cambridge, MA	Required	1,460	1,580	99	106
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	Required	1,470	1,560	100	107
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	Required	1,510	1,580	103	108
Northwestern University Evanston, IL	Required	1,430	1,550	98	106
Princeton University Princeton, NJ	Required	1,450	1,570	97	106
Rice University Houston, TX		1,460	1,570	100	107
Stanford University Stanford, CA	Required	1,420	1,570	94	106
University of Chicago Chicago, IL		1,500	1,570	100	106
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN		1,400	1,550	32 (CM Only)	35 (CM Only)
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	Required	1,460	1,570	98	106
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	Required	1,470	1,570	98	106
Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO		1,480	1,560	97	105
Yale University New Haven, CT		1,460	1,580	98	106
Average		1,458	1,566	95	102

*The tuition data is updated with academic year 2020-2021 data from National Center For Education Statistics (March 2, 2021),U.S. Department of Education.

**Information is not available for schools that are not appeared in the table. The schools have not report the information to the IPEDS or not applicable.)