SAT and ACT scores by college
Admitted student score ranges for 1009 US four-year colleges. Every page leads with the share of students who actually submitted a score, because that is what decides whether the range means anything.
Browse by state
- Alabama 18
- Arizona 4
- Arkansas 13
- California 28
- Colorado 13
- Connecticut 18
- Delaware 2
- District of Columbia 5
- Florida 30
- Georgia 33
- Hawaii 6
- Idaho 5
- Illinois 33
- Indiana 29
- Iowa 20
- Kansas 13
- Kentucky 21
- Louisiana 18
- Maine 9
- Maryland 17
- Massachusetts 41
- Michigan 25
- Minnesota 26
- Mississippi 13
- Missouri 31
- Montana 6
- Nebraska 9
- Nevada 2
- New Hampshire 6
- New Jersey 16
- New Mexico 5
- New York 86
- North Carolina 37
- North Dakota 4
- Ohio 41
- Oklahoma 15
- Oregon 10
- Pennsylvania 86
- Puerto Rico 4
- Rhode Island 9
- South Carolina 19
- South Dakota 8
- Tennessee 30
- Texas 55
- Utah 5
- Vermont 6
- VI 1
- Virginia 31
- Washington 11
- West Virginia 11
- Wisconsin 25
The number that changes everything
Across the 973 institutions here that report it, the median SAT submission rate is 21 percent, and 543 of them sit below 25 percent.
That matters because students submit scores when their scores help them. A range built from a fifth of the class, self-selected for having done well, sits higher than the class as a whole. Published without that context it reads as a bar to clear, which is not what it is.
So every page here puts the submission percentage above the score range rather than below it in small type.
What is deliberately missing
- A total SAT range. Neither source publishes one, and adding the two section percentiles together overstates the spread, because the same student is rarely at the 25th percentile in both sections. The sections are shown separately.
- A test-required flag. The federal field is self-reported and lags, sometimes by a full cycle. Colleges have reinstated requirements recently and the data has not always caught up. Each page points you at the college's own admissions site instead.
- An admission chance. This is a scoring reference. It does not model your odds anywhere, and a score inside a range is not a prediction.
Some colleges are missing, on purpose
A page exists here only where an institution actually reports a score range. Colleges that are test-blind, meaning they do not consider SAT or ACT scores at all, have nothing to report and therefore have no page. The University of California and California State systems are the largest examples.
You will find score ranges for those institutions on other sites. They are old numbers from before the policy changed, or they are inferred. If a college does not look at scores, there is no admitted-student score range to publish, and printing one anyway would be inventing data.
Two sources, two vintages
Score ranges come from College Scorecard (Fall 2024 cohort, released 2026-06-10). Submission percentages come from IPEDS (Fall 2023 cohort), because Scorecard does not carry that field at all.
The two are a year apart. That is a real limitation of joining them, and it is stated on every page rather than smoothed over. The methodology page covers how the join was built.
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Common questions
- Where does this data come from?
- Score ranges and admission rates come from the US Department of Education's College Scorecard. Score submission percentages come from IPEDS, because College Scorecard does not carry that field. Both are cited with their vintage on every page.
- Why does every page lead with a submission percentage?
- Because it changes what the range means. Across these 973 institutions the median SAT submission rate is 21 percent, and 56 percent of them are below 25 percent. For most colleges the published range describes a self-selected minority of the class.
- Why is there no total SAT range?
- Neither source publishes one, and summing the two section percentiles does not produce a valid composite. The sections are shown separately instead.
- Does this show whether a college requires the SAT?
- No. The federal policy field is self-reported and lags real changes. Check the college's own admissions pages for the cycle you are applying in.
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