Rank

Name

Admissions Rate

SAT Total
25-75th percentile

SAT Critical Reading
25-75th percentile

SAT Math
25-75th percentile

SAT Subject Tests Required

Early Decision(ED)
Early Action(EA)

1

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

7.2%

2070 - 2350

690 - 780

690 - 790

2

EA

2

Stanford University
Stanford, California

8.0%

2010 - 2300

660 - 760

680 - 780

Recommended

EA

3

Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

8.6%

2100 - 2370

700 - 800

700 - 780

2

EA

4

Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey

10.1%

2090 - 2360

690 - 790

700 - 790

2

EA

5

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

10.7%

2030 - 2320

650 - 760

720 - 800

2

EA

6

Columbia University
New York, New York

11.0%

2050 - 2320

680 - 770

680 - 780

2

ED

7

Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

11.2%

1990 - 2300

650 - 760

670 - 770

2

ED

8

Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire

13.5%

2000 - 2320

660 - 770

670 - 780

2

ED

9

California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California

15.3%

2140 - 2340

690 - 770

770 - 800

2

EA

10

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

17.7%

2020 - 2290

660 - 750

690 - 780

2

ED

11

Georgetown University
Washington, District of Columbia

18.8%

1965 - 2235

650 - 740

660 - 750

3

12

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

19.1%

1935 - 2250

630 - 730

660 - 770

2

ED

13

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

20.1%

2010 - 2270

660 - 750

690 - 770

Recommended

ED

14

University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, California

21.5%

1800 - 2170

580 - 700

620 - 760

2

15

Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, Missouri

22.2%

2085 - 2295

680 - 750

710 - 780

Recommended

ED

16

Rice University
Houston, Texas

22.3%

1970 - 2270

640 - 750

680 - 780

2

EA,ED

17

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

22.4%

2000 - 2300

660 - 760

680 - 780

2

ED

18

University of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

22.8%

1730 - 2100

560 - 680

590 - 720

2

19

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

24.4%

1910 - 2180

620 - 710

650 - 740

Recommended

20

Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

26.2%

2030 - 2280

670 - 750

690 - 780

Recommended

ED

21

Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

26.5%

1870 - 2110

620 - 700

620 - 700

   EA,ED
 

22

Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts

26.6%

2040 - 2300

680 - 750

680 - 790

2

ED

23

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

26.6%

1960 - 2240

640 - 740

670 - 760

     ED
 

24

University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

27.3%

2055 - 2340

690 - 780

680 - 780

     EA
 

25

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

27.8%

1940 - 2230

630 - 730

670 - 770

Recommended

ED

26

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana

28.6%

1995 - 2265

650 - 750

680 - 760

EA
 

27

Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

30.1%

1880 - 2150

610 - 700

640 - 730

2

EA

28

San Diego State University
San Diego, California

31.2%

1395 - 1755

460 - 570

470 - 600

EA
 

29

University of Virginia-Main Campus
Charlottesville, Virginia

32.1%

1840 - 2150

600 - 710

630 - 730

2

ED

30

Brandeis University
Waltham, Massachusetts

32.4%

1930 - 2180

640 - 720

650 - 730

2

ED