Have you ever wondered to what colleges your SAT scores will earn you acceptance to? Using US News & World Report’s 2010 ranking of national universities and data from the College Board, the Vocab Videos team has compiled a list of the average SAT scores of first-year students at some of the country’s top universities. Take a look below to see if your SAT scores are on target to gain you admission to your top-choice college. And don’t forget learning your SAT vocabulary can help raise your SAT scores 150+ points, so don’t forget to give Vocab Videos–our FUN & EFFECTIVE vocabulary learning system–a try!
| From CollegeBoard.com: Average SAT Scores by College (Middle 50% of First-Year Students) | ||||
| America’s Top National Universities 2010 (US News & World Report) | SAT Critical Reading | SAT Math | SAT Writing | ACT Composite |
| Harvard University | 690 – 780 | 690 – 790 | 690 – 780 | 31 – 34 |
| Princeton University | 690 – 790 | 700 – 790 | 700 – 780 | 31 – 35 |
| Yale University | 700 – 800 | 700 – 780 | 700 – 790 | 30 – 34 |
| California Institute of Technology | 690 – 770 | 770 – 800 | 680 – 770 | 33 – 35 |
| Massachusetts Insititute of Technology | 650 – 760 | 720 – 800 | 660 – 760 | 32 – 35 |
| Stanford University | 660 – 760 | 680 – 780 | 670 – 760 | 30 – 34 |
| University of Pennsylvania | 660 – 750 | 690 – 780 | 670 – 760 | 30 – 34 |
| Columbia University | 680 – 770 | 690 – 780 | 680 – 770 | 31 – 34 |
| University of Chicago | 690 – 780 | 680 – 780 | 670 – 760 | 28 – 32 |
| Duke University | 660 – 750 | 680 – 780 | 660 – 760 | 30 – 34 |
| Dartmouth College | 660 – 770 | 680 – 780 | 670 – 780 | 30 – 34 |
| Northwestern University | 670 – 750 | 690 – 780 | 670 – 750 | 30 – 33 |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 680 – 750 | 710 – 780 | - | 32 – 34 |
| Johns Hopkins Univeristy | 630 – 730 | 670 – 770 | 650 – 730 | 29 – 33 |
| Cornell University | 630 – 730 | 660 – 770 | - | 29 – 33 |
| Brown University | 650 – 760 | 670 – 780 | 660 – 770 | 28 – 33 |
| Emory University | 640 – 730 | 660 – 750 | 650 – 740 | 29 – 33 |
| Rice University | 640 – 750 | 680 – 780 | 650 – 740 | 30 – 34 |
| Vanderbilt University | 660 – 750 | 690 – 770 | 660 – 750 | 30 – 34 |
| University of Notre Dame | 650 – 750 | 680 – 760 | 640 – 730 | 31 – 34 |
| University of California–Berkeley | 590 – 710 | 640 – 760 | 610 – 720 | - |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 620 – 720 | 670 – 780 | 620 – 720 | 28 – 34 |
| Georgetown University | 650 – 750 | 650 – 750 | - | 27 – 33 |
| University of California–Los Angeles | 570 – 680 | 600 – 730 | 580 – 700 | 24 – 31 |
| University of Virginia | 600 – 710 | 630 – 730 | 610 – 710 | 27 – 32 |
| University of Southern California | 620 – 710 | 650 – 740 | 640 – 730 | 29 – 32 |
| University of Michigan–Ann Arbor | 590 – 690 | 640 – 740 | 600 – 700 | 27 – 31 |
| Tufts University | 680 – 750 | 680 – 750 | 680 – 760 | 30 – 33 |
| University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill | 590 – 700 | 620 – 710 | 580 – 680 | 26 – 31 |
| Wake Forest University | 580 – 690 | 600 – 700 | - | 27 – 31 |
| Brandeis University | 620 – 730 | 640 – 730 | 620 – 720 | 27 – 31 |
| New York University | 610 – 710 | 600 – 720 | 620 – 710 | 27 – 31 |
| College of William and Mary | 620 – 730 | 620 – 720 | 610 – 710 | 27 – 32 |
| Boston College | 610 – 700 | 640 – 730 | 630 – 720 | 29 – 32 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | 580 – 680 | 650 – 750 | 580 – 670 | 27 – 31 |
| Lehigh University | 590 – 630 | 630 – 710 | - | - |
| University of California-San Diego | 540 – 660 | 600 – 710 | 560 – 670 | 24 – 30 |
| University of Rochester | 590 – 690 | 640 – 720 | 590 – 690 | 28 – 33 |
| University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign | 540 – 660 | 660 – 770 | - | |
| University of Wisconsin–Madison | 550 – 670 | 620 – 720 | 570 – 670 | 26 – 30 |
| Case Western Reserve University | 590 – 700 | 650 – 740 | 590 – 690 | 28 – 32 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 610 – 700 | 660 – 750 | 580 – 680 | 25 – 30 |
| University of California–Davis | 520 – 640 | 560 – 680 | 520 – 650 | 24 – 30 |
| University of California–Santa Barbara | 540 – 660 | 550 – 670 | 540 – 660 | 24 – 30 |
| University of Washington | 530 – 650 | 570 – 680 | 530 – 640 | 24 – 30 |
| University of California–Irvine | 520 – 640 | 570 – 680 | 530 – 640 | - |
| Penn State–University Park | 530 – 630 | 560 – 670 | 540 – 640 | - |
| University of Florida | 570 – 680 | 590 – 700 | - | 25 – 30 |
| University of Texas–Austin | 530 – 660 | 570 – 700 | 530 – 660 | 24 – 30 |
| Tulane University | 630 – 700 | 620 – 700 | 630 – 710 | 29 – 32 |
| University of Miami | 570 – 680 | 600 – 700 | 570 – 670 | 27 – 31 |
| Yeshiva University | 550 – 690 | 550 – 680 | - | 22 – 28 |
| George Washington University | 600 – 690 | 600 – 690 | 600 – 690 | 27 – 30 |
| Ohio State University–Columbus | 540 – 650 | 580 – 690 | 540 – 640 | 25 – 30 |
| University of Maryland–College Park | 580 – 680 | 620 – 710 | - | - |
| Boston University | 570 – 660 | 600 – 690 | 590 – 680 | 26 – 30 |
| University of Pittsburgh | 570 – 680 | 590 – 680 | 560 – 660 | 25 – 30 |
| Pepperdine University | 560 – 660 | 560 – 680 | 560 – 660 | 24 – 30 |
| Syracuse University | 510 – 620 | 540 – 650 | 520 – 630 | 23 – 28 |
| University of Georgia | 560 – 660 | 570 – 670 | 570 – 660 | 25 – 29 |
| Clemson University | 550 – 640 | 590 – 680 | - | 25 – 30 |
| Fordham University | 570 – 670 | 570 – 670 | 570 – 670 | 26 – 30 |
| Purdue University–West Lafayette | 500 – 610 | 540 – 670 | 490 – 600 | 23 – 29 |
| Texas A&M University–College Station | 530 – 640 | 570 – 670 | 500 – 620 | 24 – 30 |
| University of Minnesota–Twin Cities | 520 – 670 | 600 – 710 | 530 – 650 | 24 – 29 |
| Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick | 530 – 630 | 560 – 680 | 540 – 640 | - |
| University of Connecticut | 550 – 640 | 570 – 670 | 550 – 650 | 24 – 29 |
| Southern Methodist University | 560 – 660 | 580 – 680 | 560 – 660 | 25 – 30 |
| University of Delaware | 520 – 630 | 540 – 650 | 520 – 640 | 24 – 28 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 560 – 660 | 630 – 720 | 560 – 660 | 26 – 31 |
| Brigham Young University–Provo | 560 – 670 | 570 – 680 | - | 25 – 30 |
| Indiana University–Bloomington | 520 – 630 | 540 – 660 | - | 24 – 29 |
| Michigan State University | 470 – 610 | 540 – 660 | 480 – 610 | 23 – 27 |
| University of California–Santa Cruz | 510 – 630 | 520 – 640 | 520 – 630 | 22 – 28 |
| University of Iowa | 500 – 640 | 560 – 690 | - | 23 – 28 |
| Virginia Tech | 540 – 640 | 570 – 670 | 540 – 630 | - |
| Colorado School of Mines | 550 – 650 | 620 – 700 | - | 26 – 30 |
| Miami University–Oxford | 530 – 630 | 560 – 660 | - | 24 – 29 |
| University of Colorado–Boulder | 520 – 630 | 550 – 650 | - | 24 – 28 |
| Baylor University | 530 – 640 | 550 – 650 | 510 – 620 | 23 – 29 |
| Northeastern University | 580 – 670 | 620 – 700 | 580 – 670 | 27 – 31 |
| SUNY–Binghamton | 580 – 670 | 620 – 710 | - | 27 – 30 |
| SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry | 520 – 610 | 540 – 630 | - | 22 – 27 |
| American University | 590 – 700 | 580 – 670 | 580 – 690 | 25 – 30 |
| Marquette University | 540 – 640 | 540 – 660 | 530 – 640 | 24 – 29 |
| Stevens Institute of Technology | 550 – 650 | 620 – 710 | 540 – 650 | 24 – 29 |
| University of Denver | 540 – 640 | 550 – 650 | 520 – 620 | 24 – 29 |
| Auburn University | 520 – 640 | 540 – 660 | 510 – 620 | 23 – 29 |
| Clark University | 550 – 650 | 530 – 640 | 550 – 650 | 24 – 29 |
| Drexel University | 540 – 630 | 570 – 670 | 520 – 630 | 23 – 28 |
| Iowa State University | 490 – 640 | 540 – 690 | - | 22 – 28 |
| North Carolina State University–Raleigh | 520 – 620 | 560 – 660 | 510 – 610 | 23 – 28 |
| St. Louis University | 540 – 650 | 540 – 670 | - | 24 – 30 |
| University of Tulsa | 570 – 700 | 560 – 690 | - | 25 – 32 |
| University of Vermont | 540 – 640 | 550 – 640 | 540 – 640 | 24 – 28 |
| Howard University | 460 – 660 | 440 – 660 | 430 – 660 | 19 – 29 |
| SUNY–Stony Brook | 520 – 620 | 580 – 670 | 520 – 620 | 24 – 28 |
| University of Alabama | 500 – 600 | 500 – 620 | - | 21 – 28 |
| University of California–Riverside | 450 – 570 | 480 – 620 | 460 – 570 | 19 – 25 |
| University of Kansas | - | - | - | 22 – 27 |
| University of Nebraska–Lincoln | 510 – 670 | 530 – 680 | - | 22 – 29 |
| Florida State University | 550 – 640 | 560 – 650 | 540 – 630 | 24 – 28 |
| University of Arizona | 460 – 600 | 490 – 620 | - | 21 – 27 |
| University of Missouri | 530 – 650 | 530 – 650 | - | 23 – 28 |
| University of Oklahoma | 510 – 640 | 530 – 660 | - | 23 – 29 |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | 540 – 670 | 630 – 720 | 530 – 640 | 530 – 640 |
| University of Massachusetts–Amherst | 520 – 630 | 540 – 650 | - | 23 – 28 |
| University of Tennessee | 510 – 640 | 530 – 650 | - | 24 – 29 |
| Washington State University | 480 – 590 | 490 – 610 | 460 – 570 | 21 – 26 |
| Texas Christian University | 520 – 630 | 530 – 650 | 520 – 630 | 23 – 28 |
| University of Dayton | 510 – 610 | 520 – 640 | - | 23 – 28 |
| University of New Hampshire | 510 – 610 | 520 – 630 | - | - |
| University of San Diego | 550 – 640 | 570 – 660 | 550 – 650 | 25 – 29 |
| University of South Carolina–Columbia | 530 – 640 | 560 – 650 | - | 24 – 29 |
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