Little Dan wants a list of colleges with the highest average SAT scores. We have searched the net to no avail. We can get a semblance of the list iteratively, but it would be nice if there was a simpler way. Anyone have suggestions?
Let’s please not rathole on whether SAT scores are meaningful.
I can’t imagine what this is supposed to tell you, aside from “this school is MOST LIKELY to fail your son,” but this site contains some interesting rankings for 1999-2000, including SATs:
The 54 colleges with highest sum of
25th and 75th percentile SAT scores
(*Test scores not required)
2990 Caltech
2980 Harvard
2960 MIT
2920 Harvey Mudd
2900 Princeton, Stanford, Yale
2870 Dartmouth
2850 Swarthmore
2840 Pomona, Rice
2800 Amherst, Williams
2790 Brown, Duke
2780 Columbia Univ., Univ. of Pennsylvania
2770 Johns Hopkins, *Middlebury (53% submitted scores)
2750 Cooper Union, Haverford
2740 Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern
2730 Emory
2720 Carleton
2710 Cornell Univ., Georgetown, Univ. of Chicago,
Columbia Univ.–Fu Foundation School of Engineering
2700 Grinnell
2690 Claremont McKenna
2680 California–Berkeley, Reed, Washington and Lee
2670 Macalester, New College (Fla.), Tufts, Washington Univ.
2660 *Bowdoin (82% submitted scores), Davidson,
Wellesley, Wesleyan Univ.
2650 Vanderbilt, Vassar
2640 Barnard, Notre Dame
2630 *Bates (62% submitted scores), Brandeis, Bryn Mawr, NYU
2620 Colby, Georgia Tech, U.S. Naval Academy, Univ. of Virginia
Remember that many schools in the Midwest also accept the ACT in lieu of the SAT. While I don’t think one is “harder” than the other, a student who gets a higher ACT score than ther equivalent SAT is likely to submit the ACT score. Thus, a number of Midwestern schools actually score relatively low on surveys like the one above.
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I’m oddly compelled to put “insufferable” in my sig.
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The above survey corrects for ACT scores:
SDMB comes through again, thanks a lot to all of you.
DanBlather – The U.S. News listing of America’s Best Colleges allows you to rank by 18 different categories, including SAT scores.
Note that SAT scores by colleges are self-reporting. (The folks in Princeton have no idea which school the test-takers ended up at.)
I was a prof at one of the above listed schools during a time when it’s SAT scores jumped 100pts in just a couple years. There was no difference in the quality at all of incoming students to us faculty. It was generally believed that the admin was playing with the numbers.
So, take such rankings with One Huge Grain of Salt.
Why, thank you JB. I’m sure I speak for Nametag in saying I’m insufferably full of myself after seeing your comment.