Admission stats and score ranges at 265 colleges

Admit rates 2.6% to 96.6% · SAT and ACT percentiles of enrolled students · U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, pulled 2026-09-17

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1500 · inside the band at 59 of these 94 · below at 11 · 67 in range across all 239

Admit
rate %SchoolSAT total, 25th to 75th percentile of enrolled students

2.6Caltech

3.6Stanford

3.7Harvard

3.9Yale

4.0Columbia

4.5U. Chicago

4.6MIT

4.6Princeton

5.2Northeastern

5.4Brown

5.4Dartmouth

5.4U. Pennsylvania

5.7Duke

5.9Vanderbilt

6.4Johns Hopkins

7.1Colby

7.1Pomona

7.1Bowdoin

7.5Swarthmore

7.7Northwestern

8.0Rice

8.3Williams

8.8Cornell

8.8Barnard

9.0Amherst

9.2NYU

9.6Claremont McKenna

9.8USC

10.7Emory

10.8Middlebury

11.1Boston

11.3U. Notre Dame

11.5Tufts

11.7Carnegie Mellon

12.1WashU

12.4Haverford

12.7Harvey Mudd

13.3Bates

13.4Davidson

13.6Hamilton

13.9Colgate

14.0Washington and Lee

14.0Tulane

14.1Wellesley

14.5Grinnell

15.3UNC Chapel Hill

15.6U. Michigan

16.5Wesleyan

16.8U. Virginia

17.1Babson

17.4Denison

17.6College of the Holy Cross

18.5Colorado

18.6Vassar

18.9U. Miami

20.4Carleton

21.0Smith

21.1Skidmore

21.7Wake Forest

24.2U. Florida

24.6Reed

24.9Spelman

25.2Pitzer

25.9Lehigh

26.6UT Austin

27.0Villanova

28.2Franklin & Marshall

28.5Macalester

28.9Bucknell

29.3Trinity College (CT)

31.0Kenyon

31.3Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly SLO)

31.5Lafayette

34.1William & Mary

34.2Oberlin

36.0Mount Holyoke

36.2San Diego State University (SDSU)

36.5Case Western Reserve

37.7U. Georgia

38.2Whitman

38.3Clemson

38.6Binghamton University (SUNY)

38.9Gettysburg

39.2U. Washington

40.1U. Rochester

40.1U. Central Florida

40.5Brandeis

41.3Howard

41.6U. Tennessee, Knoxville

41.7North Carolina State

42.1Dickinson

42.4U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign

43.0Furman

43.2U. South Florida

43.9Union College (NY)

44.0Morehouse

44.2Occidental

44.5Texas Christian

44.5Bennington

44.8U. Maryland, College Park

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25th to 75th percentile50th, medianadmit rate, bar lengthno band reported

Where the 25th percentiles land · the 94 of these 100 that report one · 20-point bins

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Your SAT against all 239 schools

67middle 50%a 1500 sits between the 25th and 75th

161above 75thhigher than three in four enrolled

11below 25thlower than three in four enrolled

Being inside a band means students with your score enrol there. It is not an admission chance: no public dataset reports admit rates by score, so nobody can honestly give you one.

In range for a 1500

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									You	Source
California Institute of Technology	2.60%	—	—	—	—	—	—	987	no band	Scorecard
Stanford University	3.60%	1510	1550	1580	34	35	35	7,554	below 25th	Scorecard
Harvard University	3.70%	1510	1550	1580	34	35	36	7,601	below 25th	Scorecard
Yale University	3.90%	1470	1540	1570	33	34	35	6,758	middle 50%	Scorecard
Columbia University	4.00%	1510	1550	1580	34	35	35	8,973	below 25th	Scorecard
University of Chicago	4.50%	1510	1550	1580	34	35	35	7,569	below 25th	Scorecard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4.60%	1520	1560	1580	34	35	36	4,535	below 25th	Scorecard
Princeton University	4.60%	1510	1550	1580	34	35	35	5,709	below 25th	Scorecard
Northeastern University	5.20%	1440	1490	1540	33	34	35	17,326	middle 50%	Scorecard
Brown University	5.40%	1510	1540	1580	34	35	35	7,226	below 25th	Scorecard
Dartmouth College	5.40%	1500	1540	1570	33	34	35	4,541	middle 50%	Scorecard
University of Pennsylvania	5.40%	1510	1550	1570	34	35	36	10,650	below 25th	Scorecard
Duke University	5.70%	1500	1540	1570	34	35	35	6,442	middle 50%	Scorecard
Vanderbilt University	5.90%	1500	1540	1570	34	35	35	7,208	middle 50%	Scorecard
Johns Hopkins University	6.40%	1520	1550	1570	34	35	36	5,693	below 25th	Scorecard
Colby College	7.10%	1460	1510	1550	32	33	34	2,407	middle 50%	Scorecard
Pomona College	7.10%	1490	1540	1560	33	34	35	1,666	middle 50%	Scorecard
Bowdoin College	7.10%	1470	1520	1550	33	34	35	1,873	middle 50%	Scorecard
Swarthmore College	7.50%	1490	1540	1560	33	34	35	1,613	middle 50%	Scorecard
Northwestern University	7.70%	1510	1540	1570	33	34	35	9,201	below 25th	Scorecard
Rice University	8.00%	1510	1550	1570	34	35	35	4,776	below 25th	Scorecard
Williams College	8.30%	1490	1540	1570	34	34	35	2,076	middle 50%	Scorecard
Cornell University	8.80%	1500	1540	1570	33	34	35	15,995	middle 50%	Scorecard
Barnard College	8.80%	1470	1520	1560	32	34	34	3,264	middle 50%	Scorecard
Amherst College	9.00%	1490	1540	1580	33	34	35	1,911	middle 50%	Scorecard
New York University	9.20%	1480	1520	1560	34	34	35	28,663	middle 50%	Scorecard
Claremont McKenna College	9.60%	1470	1530	1560	33	34	35	1,388	middle 50%	Scorecard
University of Southern California	9.80%	1450	1500	1550	32	33	35	20,443	middle 50%	Scorecard
Emory University	10.70%	1470	1520	1550	32	34	35	7,298	middle 50%	Scorecard
Middlebury College	10.80%	1445	1500	1550	33	34	35	2,738	middle 50%	Scorecard
Boston University	11.10%	1420	1480	1530	32	33	34	18,248	middle 50%	Scorecard
University of Notre Dame	11.30%	1455	1520	1560	33	34	35	8,818	middle 50%	Scorecard
Tufts University	11.50%	1470	1510	1560	33	34	35	7,061	middle 50%	Scorecard
Carnegie Mellon University	11.70%	1500	1540	1570	34	35	35	7,304	middle 50%	Scorecard
Washington University in St. Louis	12.10%	1500	1540	1570	33	34	35	7,857	middle 50%	Scorecard
Haverford College	12.40%	1460	1510	1550	33	34	35	1,430	middle 50%	Scorecard
Harvey Mudd College	12.70%	1500	1540	1570	34	35	36	921	middle 50%	Scorecard
Bates College	13.30%	1420	1465	1530	31	33	34	1,760	middle 50%	Scorecard
Davidson College	13.40%	1400	1460	1530	31	33	34	1,867	middle 50%	Scorecard
Hamilton College	13.60%	1450	1500	1550	33	34	35	2,030	middle 50%	Scorecard
Colgate University	13.90%	1430	1500	1540	33	34	34	3,180	middle 50%	Scorecard
Washington and Lee University	14.00%	1430	1480	1540	33	34	34	1,881	middle 50%	Scorecard
Tulane University	14.00%	1400	1465	1520	31	32	34	7,767	middle 50%	Scorecard
Wellesley College	14.10%	1460	1520	1560	33	34	35	2,300	middle 50%	Scorecard
Grinnell College	14.50%	1410	1490	1540	31	33	34	1,729	middle 50%	Scorecard
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	15.30%	1390	1480	1530	28	31	34	20,752	middle 50%	Scorecard
University of Michigan	15.60%	1360	1460	1530	31	33	34	34,177	middle 50%	Scorecard
Wesleyan University	16.50%	1415	1490	1540	33	34	35	3,067	middle 50%	Scorecard
University of Virginia	16.80%	1410	1480	1540	32	33	35	17,597	middle 50%	Scorecard
Babson College	17.10%	1390	1460	1530	31	32	34	2,728	middle 50%	Scorecard
Denison University	17.40%	1320	1410	1490	30	31	33	2,380	above 75th	Scorecard
College of the Holy Cross	17.60%	1240	1340	1410	27	30	32	3,106	above 75th	Scorecard
Colorado College	18.50%	1230	1340	1460	29	31	33	2,014	above 75th	Scorecard
Vassar College	18.60%	1450	1500	1550	33	33	35	2,444	middle 50%	Scorecard
University of Miami	18.90%	1320	1400	1480	30	32	33	12,913	above 75th	Scorecard
Carleton College	20.40%	1450	1515	1560	32	34	34	2,086	middle 50%	Scorecard
Smith College	21.00%	1420	1490	1540	32	34	35	2,544	middle 50%	Scorecard
Skidmore College	21.10%	1340	1390	1480	31	32	33	2,694	above 75th	Scorecard
Wake Forest University	21.70%	1410	1470	1520	32	33	34	5,485	middle 50%	Scorecard
University of Florida	24.20%	1320	1400	1480	29	31	33	35,629	above 75th	Scorecard
Reed College	24.60%	1290	1420	1520	30	33	34	1,320	middle 50%	Scorecard
Spelman College	24.90%	1108	1220	1320	22	25	29	3,414	above 75th	Scorecard
Pitzer College	25.20%	—	—	—	—	—	—	1,227	no band	Scorecard
Lehigh University	25.90%	1370	1440	1500	31	32	34	5,898	middle 50%	Scorecard
University of Texas at Austin	26.60%	1250	1390	1510	27	31	33	42,855	middle 50%	Scorecard
Villanova University	27.00%	1395	1450	1510	32	33	34	6,938	middle 50%	Scorecard
Franklin & Marshall College	28.20%	1310	1375	1463	30	32	33	1,799	above 75th	Scorecard
Macalester College	28.50%	1350	1440	1510	30	32	34	2,131	middle 50%	Scorecard
Bucknell University	28.90%	1310	1400	1470	30	32	33	3,876	above 75th	Scorecard
Trinity College (CT)	29.30%	1298	1405	1470	30	32	34	2,146	above 75th	Scorecard
Kenyon College	31.00%	1358	1420	1503	31	32	33	1,732	middle 50%	Scorecard
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly SLO)	31.30%	—	—	—	—	—	—	21,996	no band	Scorecard
Lafayette College	31.50%	1350	1430	1500	31	31	33	2,757	middle 50%	Scorecard
William & Mary	34.10%	1400	1470	1530	32	33	34	7,055	middle 50%	Scorecard
Oberlin College	34.20%	1360	1450	1520	31	32	34	2,887	middle 50%	Scorecard
Mount Holyoke College	36.00%	1380	1460	1530	32	33	35	2,169	middle 50%	Scorecard
San Diego State University (SDSU)	36.20%	—	—	—	—	—	—	35,377	no band	Scorecard
Case Western Reserve University	36.50%	1430	1510	1540	32	34	34	6,437	middle 50%	Scorecard
University of Georgia	37.70%	1270	1370	1480	29	32	34	32,137	above 75th	Scorecard
Whitman College	38.20%	1310	1410	1480	29	31	33	1,531	above 75th	Scorecard
Clemson University	38.30%	1240	1320	1410	28	31	32	23,300	above 75th	Scorecard
Binghamton University (SUNY)	38.60%	1340	1410	1500	30	32	32	14,655	middle 50%	Scorecard
Gettysburg College	38.90%	1270	1370	1460	29	31	32	2,099	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Washington	39.20%	—	—	—	—	—	—	31,942	no band	Scorecard
University of Rochester	40.10%	1410	1490	1540	31	33	34	6,331	middle 50%	Scorecard
University of Central Florida	40.10%	1200	1260	1350	25	27	29	59,146	above 75th	Scorecard
Brandeis University	40.50%	1390	1470	1520	31	32	34	3,618	middle 50%	Scorecard
Howard University	41.30%	1090	1210	1320	22	25	28	10,108	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Tennessee, Knoxville	41.60%	1200	1280	1370	25	28	31	30,418	above 75th	Scorecard
North Carolina State University	41.70%	1300	1370	1470	28	30	32	27,371	above 75th	Scorecard
Dickinson College	42.10%	1310	1380	1460	30	32	33	2,273	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	42.40%	1310	1440	1520	30	32	34	36,258	middle 50%	Scorecard
Furman University	43.00%	1260	1340	1430	28	31	32	2,379	above 75th	Scorecard
University of South Florida	43.20%	1130	1220	1320	24	26	29	37,207	above 75th	Scorecard
Union College (NY)	43.90%	1310	1390	1480	29	31	33	2,046	above 75th	Scorecard
Morehouse College	44.00%	—	—	—	18	21	25	2,844	no band	Scorecard
Occidental College	44.20%	1380	1440	1520	31	33	34	1,877	middle 50%	Scorecard
Texas Christian University	44.50%	1140	1250	1350	26	29	31	11,026	above 75th	Scorecard
Bennington College	44.50%	1291	1335	1403	30	32	32	780	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Maryland, College Park	44.80%	1400	1465	1530	32	34	35	30,760	middle 50%	Scorecard
Bentley University	45.10%	1280	1350	1430	28	30	31	4,474	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Wisconsin–Madison	45.20%	1380	1460	1520	29	31	33	36,902	middle 50%	Scorecard
Auburn University	45.90%	1260	1320	1390	26	29	31	26,816	above 75th	Scorecard
Syracuse University	45.90%	1270	1360	1440	29	31	32	15,477	above 75th	Scorecard
CSU Long Beach (CSULB)	46.30%	—	—	—	—	—	—	35,924	no band	Scorecard
George Washington University	47.10%	1350	1430	1500	31	32	34	11,182	middle 50%	Scorecard
CUNY Baruch College	47.50%	1100	1280	1400	—	—	—	16,154	above 75th	Scorecard
Stevens Institute of Technology	47.60%	1380	1440	1505	31	33	34	4,222	middle 50%	Scorecard
Santa Clara University	48.00%	1350	1420	1490	31	32	33	6,552	above 75th	Scorecard
St. Olaf College	48.30%	1300	1380	1470	28	30	32	3,093	above 75th	Scorecard
Stony Brook University (SUNY)	49.00%	1330	1420	1500	29	31	33	18,101	middle 50%	Scorecard
Purdue University	49.90%	1200	1350	1480	27	31	34	44,503	above 75th	Scorecard
Rhodes College	50.30%	1300	1385	1486	26	29	32	1,836	above 75th	Scorecard
Providence College	50.90%	1250	1330	1390	29	31	32	4,229	above 75th	Scorecard
Baylor University	51.30%	1200	1300	1400	27	30	32	14,785	above 75th	Scorecard
Bard College	52.10%	1270	1380	1450	28	30	32	2,414	above 75th	Scorecard
University of San Diego (USD)	52.40%	—	—	—	—	—	—	5,671	no band	Scorecard
University of Connecticut (UConn)	52.40%	1210	1340	1440	28	31	33	19,835	above 75th	Scorecard
CUNY Hunter College	53.80%	1100	1280	1420	—	—	—	16,289	above 75th	Scorecard
Centre College	54.40%	1160	1360	1450	25	29	32	1,400	above 75th	Scorecard
Florida International University	54.70%	1070	1160	1260	21	24	27	39,508	above 75th	Scorecard
Virginia Tech	54.80%	1280	1360	1450	28	30	32	30,923	above 75th	Scorecard
Illinois Institute of Technology	54.90%	1180	1300	1440	26	29	32	2,833	above 75th	Scorecard
Georgia State University	55.40%	940	1060	1180	19	22	26	26,623	above 75th	Scorecard
Sewanee: The University of the South	56.90%	1260	1330	1390	27	29	31	1,607	above 75th	Scorecard
DePauw University	57.20%	1200	1315	1410	28	31	32	1,905	above 75th	Scorecard
Texas A&M University	57.40%	1150	1270	1400	25	28	31	59,615	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Pittsburgh (Pitt)	58.10%	1280	1360	1460	29	31	33	20,370	above 75th	Scorecard
Rutgers University–New Brunswick	58.20%	1310	1410	1500	28	31	33	37,751	middle 50%	Scorecard
Fordham University	59.30%	1320	1410	1480	30	32	33	10,512	above 75th	Scorecard
College of Wooster	59.50%	1220	1330	1460	27	30	33	1,730	above 75th	Scorecard
UMass Amherst	59.70%	1310	1420	1500	30	32	33	23,671	middle 50%	Scorecard
College of Charleston	60.00%	1140	1220	1310	25	27	30	10,558	above 75th	Scorecard
University of South Carolina	60.20%	1180	1270	1360	26	29	32	29,820	above 75th	Scorecard
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	60.20%	—	—	—	—	—	—	5,447	no band	Scorecard
University of New Hampshire (UNH)	60.40%	1060	1160	1265	—	—	—	4,841	above 75th	Scorecard
Penn State University	60.60%	1240	1330	1420	27	30	32	42,284	above 75th	Scorecard
Ohio State University	60.60%	1310	1400	1480	28	30	32	45,638	above 75th	Scorecard
University of San Francisco (USF)	61.70%	1190	1290	1390	25	28	30	5,287	above 75th	Scorecard
Sarah Lawrence College	61.70%	1240	1360	1430	28	30	31	1,530	above 75th	Scorecard
The College of New Jersey	62.30%	1140	1240	1340	26	28	31	7,105	above 75th	Scorecard
Pepperdine University	62.90%	1290	1370	1450	29	31	32	3,553	above 75th	Scorecard
Wabash College	63.30%	1060	1170	1270	23	26	28	866	above 75th	Scorecard
Southern Methodist University	63.40%	1340	1420	1490	30	32	34	7,277	above 75th	Scorecard
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	63.50%	1375	1450	1510	30	33	34	5,714	middle 50%	Scorecard
Berry College	64.00%	1125	1220	1330	22	25	28	2,245	above 75th	Scorecard
Coe College	64.00%	1070	1150	1290	23	26	29	1,164	above 75th	Scorecard
New Jersey Institute of Technology	65.10%	1210	1330	1460	27	31	34	9,019	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Texas at Dallas	65.10%	1160	1280	1410	24	28	32	21,751	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Vermont (UVM)	65.30%	1290	1360	1440	30	31	32	11,743	above 75th	Scorecard
Chapman University	65.40%	1260	1350	1440	28	30	31	7,478	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Dayton	65.50%	1200	1290	1380	25	29	31	7,682	above 75th	Scorecard
Stonehill College	66.30%	—	—	—	—	—	—	2,528	no band	Scorecard
Elon University	66.40%	1130	1200	1280	23	25	28	6,452	above 75th	Scorecard
Lipscomb University	67.70%	1160	1280	1380	23	26	30	2,997	above 75th	Scorecard
Brigham Young University (BYU)	67.80%	1270	1360	1460	28	30	32	32,952	above 75th	Scorecard
Hofstra University	68.10%	1230	1310	1400	28	30	32	6,488	above 75th	Scorecard
Presbyterian College	68.40%	980	1100	1200	21	23	26	852	above 75th	Scorecard
Siena University	69.00%	1110	1220	1360	27	31	33	3,409	above 75th	Scorecard
University at Albany (SUNY)	69.10%	—	—	—	—	—	—	12,564	no band	Scorecard
Kennesaw State University	69.20%	1000	1110	1220	19	22	26	41,254	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Delaware	70.60%	1190	1280	1370	28	30	32	19,071	above 75th	Scorecard
Endicott College	71.20%	1193	1270	1340	25	28	30	3,125	above 75th	Scorecard
James Madison University (JMU)	71.50%	1170	1250	1340	24	27	29	20,888	above 75th	Scorecard
Luther College	71.50%	1078	1215	1406	22	25	29	1,379	above 75th	Scorecard
Stetson University	71.60%	1060	1155	1270	21	25	28	2,297	above 75th	Scorecard
Quinnipiac University	72.20%	1150	1230	1320	25	28	30	6,531	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Rhode Island (URI)	72.20%	1020	1160	1280	—	—	—	13,381	above 75th	Scorecard
University of North Texas (UNT)	72.20%	980	1100	1230	19	23	27	34,341	above 75th	Scorecard
Canisius University	72.40%	—	—	—	—	—	—	1,685	no band	Scorecard
UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)	72.40%	1240	1320	1420	25	29	31	10,701	above 75th	Scorecard
Texas Tech University	72.70%	1090	1180	1280	23	25	28	32,394	above 75th	Scorecard
Nova Southeastern University	73.20%	1030	1160	1300	19	23	28	7,240	above 75th	Scorecard
Seton Hall University	73.30%	1220	1310	1390	27	30	32	6,036	above 75th	Scorecard
Louisiana State University (LSU)	73.30%	1180	1255	1340	24	27	30	30,594	above 75th	Scorecard
Elmhurst University	73.60%	990	1130	1260	23	26	30	3,006	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Houston	73.90%	1160	1250	1340	23	26	29	38,380	above 75th	Scorecard
Meredith College	74.20%	1098	1185	1348	23	25	29	1,188	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Buffalo (SUNY)	74.20%	1210	1290	1380	27	29	32	20,112	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Arkansas	74.30%	1030	1120	1220	21	24	28	28,677	above 75th	Scorecard
Oklahoma State University	75.00%	1040	1150	1250	20	23	27	21,773	above 75th	Scorecard
Saint Louis University (SLU)	75.00%	1200	1305	1410	25	28	31	7,267	above 75th	Scorecard
Cal Poly Pomona	75.20%	—	—	—	—	—	—	25,042	no band	Scorecard
Coastal Carolina University	75.30%	1050	1140	1220	21	23	26	10,377	above 75th	Scorecard
Miami University (Ohio)	75.40%	1220	1310	1390	25	28	30	16,656	above 75th	Scorecard
DePaul University	75.90%	1140	1240	1330	25	28	31	14,090	above 75th	Scorecard
Pace University	75.90%	1180	1260	1340	24	27	29	7,665	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Oklahoma	76.60%	1140	1238	1330	23	26	29	22,734	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Alabama	76.70%	1170	1270	1400	24	27	31	33,227	above 75th	Scorecard
Seattle University	76.90%	1200	1310	1430	23	27	30	4,062	above 75th	Scorecard
Oregon State University	77.30%	1140	1290	1400	24	27	31	30,743	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Illinois Chicago	77.40%	1130	1240	1350	25	28	31	22,170	above 75th	Scorecard
Clarkson University	77.40%	1200	1300	1390	25	28	32	2,196	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Evansville	77.60%	—	—	—	—	—	—	1,539	no band	Scorecard
Mississippi State University	77.60%	1100	1210	1350	21	25	29	18,397	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Denver	77.80%	1240	1320	1410	28	31	33	6,025	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Colorado Boulder	78.10%	1240	1340	1430	29	31	33	31,939	above 75th	Scorecard
Indiana University Bloomington	78.20%	1170	1290	1400	27	30	33	37,806	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Missouri (Mizzou)	78.50%	1150	1230	1330	23	26	30	23,929	above 75th	Scorecard
Juniata College	78.90%	1130	1220	1320	22	27	30	1,191	above 75th	Scorecard
Manhattan University	78.90%	1180	1275	1358	25	26	29	2,744	above 75th	Scorecard
Winthrop University	79.30%	1010	1115	1220	20	24	27	3,523	above 75th	Scorecard
Drexel University	79.40%	1240	1340	1440	27	30	32	13,233	above 75th	Scorecard
UNC Charlotte	79.60%	1140	1250	1330	21	25	28	24,453	above 75th	Scorecard
Creighton University	79.80%	1243	1325	1428	26	28	31	4,348	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Minnesota Twin Cities	79.80%	1300	1410	1500	26	29	31	31,855	middle 50%	Scorecard
UT Arlington	79.90%	1010	1120	1240	19	23	27	32,294	above 75th	Scorecard
Temple University	80.40%	—	—	—	—	—	—	20,970	no band	Scorecard
Marquette University	81.30%	1200	1290	1360	26	28	31	7,660	above 75th	Scorecard
Loyola University Chicago	81.60%	1170	1260	1360	27	29	32	11,737	above 75th	Scorecard
Gonzaga University	81.70%	1190	1290	1380	27	29	31	5,198	above 75th	Scorecard
Western Carolina University	81.80%	1080	1180	1270	19	23	25	10,024	above 75th	Scorecard
Towson University	82.00%	950	1090	1235	19	23	27	16,136	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Redlands	82.70%	1107	1240	1350	21	26	28	2,049	above 75th	Scorecard
Le Moyne College	83.00%	1160	1245	1330	25	29	30	2,439	above 75th	Scorecard
St. John's University (NY)	83.40%	1150	1240	1340	24	27	29	9,477	above 75th	Scorecard
Duquesne University	83.60%	1180	1260	1340	26	29	32	5,350	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Iowa	83.60%	1130	1230	1330	21	24	28	22,264	above 75th	Scorecard
Truman State University	83.80%	1170	1320	1370	25	28	31	2,513	above 75th	Scorecard
San Jose State University (SJSU)	84.60%	—	—	—	—	—	—	27,601	no band	Scorecard
Michigan State University	84.80%	1180	1260	1360	25	28	31	40,922	above 75th	Scorecard
Ohio University	85.00%	1090	1190	1290	22	25	28	19,633	above 75th	Scorecard
Butler University	85.10%	1160	1250	1350	26	28	31	4,317	above 75th	Scorecard
Linfield University	85.20%	—	—	—	—	—	—	1,621	no band	Scorecard
University of Cincinnati	85.30%	1160	1260	1370	24	27	29	29,882	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Northern Colorado	85.90%	950	1070	1190	21	24	26	5,598	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Utah	86.00%	1190	1285	1380	22	26	29	27,264	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Arizona	86.10%	1150	1290	1420	21	25	29	42,537	above 75th	Scorecard
Kent State University	86.30%	1010	1120	1240	18	21	25	19,320	above 75th	Scorecard
Xavier University	86.40%	1103	1210	1310	22	25	29	4,207	above 75th	Scorecard
Washington State University	86.60%	—	—	—	—	—	—	21,099	no band	Scorecard
UT San Antonio (UTSA)	86.80%	1000	1100	1220	19	23	25	30,580	above 75th	Scorecard
Niagara University	87.40%	1060	1160	1235	22	25	28	2,653	above 75th	Scorecard
George Mason University	87.50%	1160	1270	1360	25	28	30	27,752	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Nebraska–Lincoln	87.50%	1098	1200	1330	22	24	28	19,178	above 75th	Scorecard
Roger Williams University	87.70%	1140	1220	1310	24	26	29	3,946	above 75th	Scorecard
Oakland University	87.80%	1030	1120	1230	—	—	—	12,351	above 75th	Scorecard
Montclair State University	87.90%	910	1070	1210	—	—	—	18,376	above 75th	Scorecard
Georgia Southern University	87.90%	986	1055	1133	18	20	23	21,790	above 75th	Scorecard
Illinois State University	88.20%	990	1100	1210	21	24	27	19,057	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Oregon	88.30%	1130	1260	1360	23	27	30	20,497	above 75th	Scorecard
Colorado State University	88.50%	—	—	—	—	—	—	25,538	no band	Scorecard
Iowa State University	88.70%	1120	1250	1360	21	24	28	25,367	above 75th	Scorecard
West Virginia University (WVU)	89.00%	1010	1110	1220	20	23	26	17,385	above 75th	Scorecard
East Carolina University (ECU)	89.20%	1070	1160	1240	21	24	26	19,896	above 75th	Scorecard
Texas State University	89.30%	980	1100	1200	19	22	25	36,177	above 75th	Scorecard
Valparaiso University	89.40%	1060	1160	1280	23	27	31	2,083	above 75th	Scorecard
Northern Arizona University	89.60%	—	—	—	—	—	—	22,903	no band	Scorecard
Arizona State University	89.90%	—	—	—	—	—	—	64,674	no band	Scorecard
University of St. Thomas (Houston, TX)	89.90%	980	1090	1210	18	21	25	3,220	above 75th	Scorecard
Appalachian State University	90.10%	1120	1200	1280	21	25	27	19,444	above 75th	Scorecard
Sam Houston State University	90.30%	930	1040	1120	17	20	24	17,743	above 75th	Scorecard
Cal State Fullerton (CSUF)	90.50%	—	—	—	—	—	—	38,546	no band	Scorecard
Michigan Technological University	92.40%	1130	1240	1350	25	28	31	5,955	above 75th	Scorecard
VCU (Virginia Commonwealth)	92.60%	1010	1130	1270	22	25	30	20,753	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Kentucky	92.90%	1070	1180	1290	21	25	28	24,763	above 75th	Scorecard
Cal State Northridge (CSUN)	93.50%	—	—	—	—	—	—	32,691	no band	Scorecard
University of Kansas	93.50%	1070	1190	1300	20	24	28	21,217	above 75th	Scorecard
Sacramento State (CSU Sacramento)	94.00%	—	—	—	—	—	—	28,350	no band	Scorecard
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV)	94.20%	880	990	1090	15	18	21	28,666	above 75th	Scorecard
University of New Mexico	95.20%	890	1020	1170	19	23	26	17,244	above 75th	Scorecard
Fresno State (CSU Fresno)	95.30%	—	—	—	—	—	—	21,605	no band	Scorecard
University of Nevada, Las Vegas	96.20%	1010	1120	1240	18	21	25	24,622	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)	96.60%	1000	1090	1200	21	25	29	21,473	above 75th	Scorecard
University of Maine	96.60%	—	—	—	—	—	—	8,496	no band	Scorecard

Among the 30 most selective, 13 of 29 sit in one 20-point bin. The 29 that admit under 12% span 80 points at the 25th percentile. Across all 265, admit rates run from 2.6% to 96.6%.

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Enrolled, not applicantsThe federal file records who showed up. The applicant pool is larger and scores lower.

Test-optional bends this upWhere submitting is a choice, submitters are the ones with scores worth submitting.

26 of 265 report no bandTest-blind and test-free schools among them, including Caltech and the Cal State campuses. Dashed, not estimated, and never counted as in range.

No odds here, everPersonal probability needs admit rates conditional on score. No public dataset has them.

Not a rankingThese are the 265 colleges NudgeEssay publishes essay requirement pages for, sorted by admit rate. A school being absent says nothing about it.

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Admit rate, enrolled-student SAT and ACT percentiles and undergraduate enrolment are reported by each institution under IPEDS and published in the College Scorecard. Pulled 2026-09-17 for the 2026-27 cycle. All 265 colleges NudgeEssay publishes essay requirement pages for are listed, 239 of them with a full SAT band; the chart above draws the 30 most selective. See also Chance Me, which places your own list against the same federal data.