SAT & ACT Test Scores Comparison Between 20 Selected Colleges

The average SAT score of Top 20 US Colleges is 1,507 and the average ACT score is 98. California Institute of Technology has the highest scores on both SAT and ACT tests with 1,545 (SAT) and 107 (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.

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2020 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	Required	1,440	1,570	98	106
California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	Required	1,530	1,560	105	108
Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	Required	1,440	1,570	98	106
Cornell University Ithaca, NY	Required	1,400	1,560	95	106
Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	Required	1,440	1,560	95	106
Duke University Durham, NC	Required	1,480	1,570	99	106
Harvard University Cambridge, MA	Required	1,460	1,570	98	107
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	Required	1,460	1,560	97	106
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	Required	1,510	1,570	103	108
Northwestern University Evanston, IL	Required	1,440	1,550	98	106
Princeton University Princeton, NJ	Required	1,460	1,570	98	106
Rice University Houston, TX	Required	1,470	1,570	98	107
Stanford University Stanford, CA	Required	1,440	1,570	96	106
University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	Required	1,300	1,530	84	104
University of Chicago Chicago, IL		1,500	1,570	99	106
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	Required	1,400	1,550	30 (CM Only)	33 (CM Only)
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	Required	1,450	1,560	99	106
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	Required	1,460	1,560	98	106
Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	Required	1,480	1,560	97	105
Yale University New Haven, CT	Required	1,460	1,570	99	106
Average		1,451	1,563	94	103

*The data for academic year 2019-2020 is from IPEDS (The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System),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.)

Top 20 US Colleges

Schools with High SAT Scores

California Institute of Technology 1,545
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1,540
University of Chicago 1,535
Duke University 1,525
Rice University 1,520

Schools with High ACT Scores

California Institute of Technology 107
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 106
Yale University 103
University of Pennsylvania 103
Harvard University 103

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