The Tailgater's Handbook Lists

America's Smartest Students

from stateuniversity.com

Rank for 75th Percentile Scores of colleges on our (the Tailgater's Handbook) site.

	School	SAT
1.	Harvard	1590
	Yale	1590
3.	Princeton	1580
4.	Brown	1540
	Columbia	1540
	Dartmouth	1540
	Duke	1540
	Stanford	1540
9.	Chicago	1530
10.	Pennsylvania	1520
	Northwestern	1520
	Rice	1520

Explanation of 75 percentile numbers

The SAT data on this page shows SAT scores for the 75th percentile of students. But what exactly do these numbers mean?

Consider a college profile that presents the following SAT scores for the 25th and 75th percentiles:

• SAT Critical Reading: 500 / 610
• SAT Math: 520 / 620
• SAT Writing: 490 / 600

The lower number is for the 25th percentile of students who enrolled in (not just applied to) the college. For the school above, 25% of enrolled students received a math score of 520 or lower.

The upper number is for the 75th percentile of students who enrolled in the college. For the above example, 75% of enrolled students got a math score of 620 or lower (looked at another way, 25% of students got above a 620).

For the school above, if you have an SAT math score of 640, you would be in the top 25% of applicants for that one measure. If you have a math score of 500, you are in the bottom 25% of applicants for that measure.

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