Top American Universities
| No. | University | Website | Average SAT Score - Middle 50% of Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) | www.harvard.edu | 2080 - 2370 |
| 2 | Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) | www.princeton.edu | 2080 - 2360 |
| 3 | Yale University (New Haven, CT) | www.yale.edu | 2100 - 2370 |
| 4 | Massachussetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) |
www.mit.edu | 2040 - 2310 |
| 4 | Stanford University (Stanford, CA) | www.stanford.edu | 2000 - 2300 |
| 6 | California Institue of Technology (Pasadena, CA) | www.caltech.edu | 2100 - 2330 |
| 6 | University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA | www.upenn.edu | 2000 - 2280 |
| 8 | Columbia University (New York, NY) | www.columbia.edu | 2050 - 2320 |
| 8 | Duke University (Durham, NC) | www.duke.edu | 2000 - 2300 |
| 8 | University of Chicago (Chicago, IL) | www.uchicago.edu | |
| 11 | Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) | www.dartmouth.edu | 2010 - 2320 |
| 12 | Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) | www.northwestern.edu | 2030 - 2280 |
| 12 | Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO) | www.wustl.edu | |
| 14 | Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) | www.cornell.edu | |
| 15 | Brown University (Providence, RI) | www.brown.edu | 1980 - 2310 |
| 16 | Rice University (Houston, TX) | www.rice.edu | 1960 - 2280 |
| 18 | Emory University (Atlanta, GA) | www.emory.edu | 1960 - 2240 |
| 18 | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN) | www.vanderbilt.edu | 1980 - 2230 |
| 21 | University of California - Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) | www.berkeley.edu | 1810 - 2190 |
| 22 | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) | www.cmu.edu | 1910 - 2210 |
| 23 | Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.) | www.georgetown.edu | |
| 23 | University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA) | www.virginia.edu | 1830 - 2160 |
| 25 | University of California - Los Angeles, CA) | www.ucla.edu | 1750 - 2110 |