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Oregon State University SAT and ACT scores

Corvallis, Oregon Public 30,743 undergraduates

SAT Reading and Writing

580-700

middle 50%, median 650

67 to 92 percentile nationally

SAT Math

560-700

middle 50%, median 640

66 to 91 percentile nationally

ACT composite

24-31

middle 50%, median 27

Admission rate

77.3%

reported to IPEDS

How to read these numbers

The middle 50 percent range means a quarter of submitting students scored below the lower number and a quarter scored above the higher one. Being inside the range does not predict admission, and being below it does not rule it out.

Why there is no total score range here

Adding the two section ranges together would give roughly 1140 to 1400, and you will see that figure on other sites. It is not a real composite range.

The 25th percentile of a total is not the sum of the two section 25th percentiles, because the same student is rarely at the 25th percentile in both sections at once. The true composite band is narrower. Neither College Scorecard nor IPEDS publishes one, so this page shows the sections separately rather than inventing a total.

The ACT range in SAT terms

Using the official 2018 concordance, an ACT 24 concords to roughly SAT 1180 and an ACT 31 to roughly SAT 1400. That comes with published standard errors of plus or minus 2 ACT points and plus or minus 80 SAT points, and the table predates both current tests. The converter explains the caveats.

Working out where you stand

If you have a practice test rather than an official score, the SAT score calculator converts it using that test's own official table, and the score needed calculator works backwards from a target to the raw score it takes.

For what these numbers mean in national terms rather than at one institution, see the percentile tables and what counts as a good score.

Whether scores are required here

This page does not state Oregon State University's current testing policy. The policy field in the federal data is self-reported and lags real changes, sometimes by a full admissions cycle, and several universities have reinstated requirements recently.

Check Oregon State University's own admissions pages for the cycle you are applying in. Their site is oregonstate.edu. Our guide covers the current landscape, with the same warning.

Sources

The two sources have different vintages, one year apart. That is stated rather than smoothed over, because a submission percentage from a different cohort than the score range is a real limitation of the joined data.

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Common questions

What SAT score do you need for Oregon State University?
Among enrolled students who submitted an SAT score, the middle 50 percent scored 580 to 700 in Reading and Writing and 560 to 700 in Math.
What ACT score do you need for Oregon State University?
The middle 50 percent of enrolled students who submitted an ACT scored 24 to 31 on the composite.
Why is there no single SAT total range on this page?
Because neither of the sources publishes one. The 25th percentile of a total is not the sum of the two section 25th percentiles, so adding them together would overstate the spread. The sections are shown separately, which is what the data actually supports.
How selective is Oregon State University?
The reported admission rate is 77.3 percent. Admission rates and score ranges describe different things, and a score inside the published range is not by itself a prediction of admission.
How current is this data?
Score ranges come from the College Scorecard release of 2026-08, covering the Fall 2024 cohort, released 2026-06-10. Submission percentages come from IPEDS, Fall 2023 cohort. The two have different vintages and are labelled separately on this page.

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