SAT Score Ranges for Different Schools

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<p>I don’t know how much this is going to help, but I thought that I’d share this data with you. All of this comes from different college counseling sites, like Hernandez Counseling and Wikipedia, different colleges’ sites, and common data sets. I do ask that you please be respectful. I spent A LOT of time compiling all of this information, and I’m sure that all of my figures are correct.</p>

<p>Please note: These figures represent the Middle 50% of admitted and/or enrolled students for the Class of 2011 at different schools, unless otherwise noted. </p>

<p>IVY LEAGUE
Princeton: 2050-2360
Harvard: 2080-2370
Yale: 2080-2370
UPenn: 1980-2250
Dartmouth: 2050-2230
Columbia: 1980-2220
Cornell: 1980-2190
Brown: 2010-2290</p>

<p>LITTLE THREE IVIES
Amherst College: Average SAT Score was 2129<br>
Williams College: Average Old SAT Score was 1441
Wesleyan University: 1990-2270</p>

<p>MISC.
Georgetown: Old SAT Score Range was 1350-1520
Stanford: 2000-2300 for the Class of 2010
Caltech: Old SAT Score Range was 1480-1560 for the Class of 2010
MIT: 2060-2330
UChicago: Old SAT Score Range was 1350-1500 for the Class of 2010
Duke: Average SAT Score was 2210 for the Class of 2010
CMU: 1910-2190 for the Class of 2010
Rice: Old SAT Score Range was 1330-1540
UVA: 1830-2140 for the Class of 2010
Johns Hopkins: 2000-2280
UNC-Chapel Hill: Old SAT Score Range was 1210-1380 for the Class of 2010
UMich: 1900-2160 (I’m not sure whether this is current…)
Vanderbilt: 1930-2190 for the Class of 2010
UC-Berkeley: Average SAT Score was 1975 for the Class of 2010
Wash U: Old SAT Score Range is listed as 1370-1530. Sorry, I couldn’t find any updates on the SAT Score Range. :(.
Northwestern: Average Old SAT Score was 1402 for the Class of 2009
Emory: Average Old SAT Score Range was 1300-1470 for the Class of 2009
UCLA: 1770-2110 for the Class of 2010
University of Notre Dame: Old SAT Score Range was 1340-1470 for the Class of 2010</p>

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<p>Actually, cherokee, many of these scores are more up-to-date than are those of the College Board.</p>

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<p>So now kids can be depressed because the middle 50 range shifted over 20 points? Woohoo.</p>

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<p>No Swarthmore love?</p>

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<p>The College Board has Dartmouth’s Math and Verbal 75th percentile at 1550. If your number is correct, that would make the 75% Writing score there 680. I think it is possible that the actual 75% at Dartmouth is 2320 rather than 2230.
Dartmouth has had the 4th highest Ivy SAT scores as long as I’ve been paying attention to these things.</p>

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<p>danas, I’m sorry to tell you this, but the College Board’s scores are out-of-date.</p>

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<p>Here are more SAT Score Ranges for Liberal Arts Colleges! </p>

<p>Please note: I listed only the ones that I could find immediately. There are many LAC’s that are “SAT-optional” schools. </p>

<p>Swarthmore: 1970-2290 for the Class of 2010
Barnard: Median SAT Score is 2050
Vassar: Median SAT Score is 2110
Reed: Average Old SAT Score is 1410
Claremont McKenna: Average Old SAT Score was 1400 for the Class of 2010
Colgate: Old SAT Score Range is 1320-1490
Davidson: 2010-2260
Harvey Mudd: 2090-2290
Pomona: 2090-2300</p>

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<p>so for a school to be considered a safety for us, do our SAT ranges have to fall way above the listed ranges above?</p>

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<p>Well, blondie, even if your scores are above those in the listed range for a chosen school, it doesn’t mean that the school will necessarily be a safety for you. Admissions officers also look at your GPA, rank, extracurriculars, and much more. SAT Scores typically serve as qualifiers, if anything. Also, there tend to be a handful of students that score lower than the numbers in middle 50% and still get in. For example, there was a guy from my school that was ranked third, yet scored in the 2000’s on his SAT’s, and got into Columbia off of the waitlist. He did a lot of sports and activities outside of the classroom. Damn, I feel like a college counselor.</p>

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<p>Of course, certain schools will be safeties, depending on their acceptance rates.</p>

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<p>There are no safeties on this list. For anyone.</p>

<p>Showtunes - what about the ACT’s???</p>

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<p>showtunes…
I checked Dartmouth’s 2006-2007 Common Data Set and I was right. The 75th percentile number IS 2320.</p>

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<p>danas, the 2006-2007 Common Data Set corresponds to the Class of 2010, not the Class of 2011.</p>

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<p>I’ll reply here just once to say that that statement is total baloney. No figures are more up-to-date or authoritative than those you can find through the College Board College QuickFinder, e.g., </p>

<p><a href=“http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3300&profileId=6[/url]”>http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3300&profileId=6&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>because colleges report this information directly to the College Board according to the standardized data definitions and methodology developed under the Common Data Set Initiative. The same data go to the federal government through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and to U.S. News and to Petersons. You can look up any college you like on the College Board College QuickFinder, and the page about test scores will always have the most accurate interquartile ranges for the test scores considered by that college in admitting its most recent freshman class. </p>

<p>Your figures are WRONG because you are making the common mistake of adding scores from different sections of the test, but that is not the Common Data Set Initiative reporting protocol.</p>

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<p>I challenge you to tell me where you found that number.</p>

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<p>kluge, I’ll compile a list of ACT scores tomorrow.</p>

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<p>Fine. I will. Go here: <a href=“http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/college/ivy_league_table.asp[/url]”>http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/college/ivy_league_table.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Do remember that I added 700. It’s a rough estimate, but it seems accurate, nevertheless.</p>

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<p>You know, you can’t determine the combined range completely accurately based on adding the individual ranges together. The combined range most likely shares a median, but is going to be more leptokurtic than the addition of the sections. Adding them will give you the maximum possible range, but it is more likely to be centered among the median. Of course, this means that the 75th combined percentile is lower, but also that the 25th percentile is higher. </p>

<p>Does this flaw in data analysis make sense to anyone else?</p>

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<p>token, look at the URL that I posted up, and feel free to look up the rest of these scores. The colleges usually don’t report their scores to the College Board until the school year begins, and I checked Wesleyan’s scores on its own version of the Common Data Set. The College Board’s 75th-percentile scores are off by 60 points for Wes.</p>