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The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art SAT and ACT scores

New York, New York Private nonprofit 842 undergraduates

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43% submitted an SAT score

Every range below describes only those students, which is a minority of the class. That is 78 enrolled students. Students who submit scores are the ones who chose to, so the range is not a picture of the whole class.

SAT Reading and Writing

653-748

middle 50%, median 705

84 to 97 percentile nationally

SAT Math

642-753

middle 50%, median 705

82 to 95 percentile nationally

ACT composite

28-34

middle 50%, median 31, 9% submitted

Admission rate

20.7%

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.

At The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art the range is built from the 43 percent of enrolled students who chose to submit a score. Students generally submit when their score helps them, so a range drawn from that group sits higher than the class as a whole. Treat it as a description of a self-selected slice, not a cutoff.

Why there is no total score range here

Adding the two section ranges together would give roughly 1295 to 1501, 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 28 concords to roughly SAT 1310 and an ACT 34 to roughly SAT 1500. 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 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art'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 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art's own admissions pages for the cycle you are applying in. Their site is www.cooper.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 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art?
Among enrolled students who submitted an SAT score, the middle 50 percent scored 653 to 748 in Reading and Writing and 642 to 753 in Math. Note that only 43 percent of enrolled students submitted an SAT score, so that range describes a minority of the class.
What ACT score do you need for The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art?
The middle 50 percent of enrolled students who submitted an ACT scored 28 to 34 on the composite. 9 percent of enrolled students submitted an ACT score.
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 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art?
The reported admission rate is 20.7 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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