<p>From this thread ranking by SAT scores of incoming students- Bates is indeed higher than MIddlebury</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=227261[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=227261</a>
Middle 50% SAT Scores of Students
Entering The Top LACs in 2005</p>
<p>HarveyMudd V 670 760 M 760 800 avg 748
Amherst V 670 780 M 680 780 avg 728
Pomona V 690 770 M 690 760 avg 728
Swarthmore V 680 770 M 670 760 avg 720
Williams V 670 770 M 670 760 avg 718
Carleton V 660 760 M 660 740 avg 705
Bowdoin V 660 740 M 660 730 avg 698
Vassar V 680 730 M 660 720 avg 698
Wellesley V 660 750 M 650 730 avg 698
Wesleyan V 650 750 M 650 740 avg 698
ClaremontMcKenna V 630 760 M 640 750 avg 695
Grinnell V 640 750 M 640 750 avg 695
WashingtonAndLee V 660 730 M 660 720 avg 693
Haverford V 640 740 M 650 730 avg 690
Reed V 660 760 M 620 710 avg 688
Barnard V 650 740 M 640 710 avg 685
Oberlin V 650 750 M 620 710 avg 683
Davidson V 640 730 M 640 710 avg 680
Colby V 640 720 M 640 710 avg 678
Colgate V 630 710 M 650 720 avg 678
Hamilton V 630 720 M 640 720 avg 678
Macalester V 630 740 M 630 710 avg 678
Bates V 640 710 M 640 710 avg 675
Middlebury V 620 710 M 640 690 avg 665
ConnCollege V 630 700 M 620 690 avg 660
MountHolyoke V 620 710 M 610 690 avg 658
Trinity V 610 700 M 610 700 avg 655
BrynMawr V 620 720 M 590 680 avg 653
Smith V 580 710 M 570 670 avg 633</p>
<p>I also just read an interesting exhange Re: MIddlebury & Reed regarding a new college freshman at one school, whose parent is the director of admissions at the other school ;)</p>