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What SAT or ACT score do I need?

There is no single SAT or ACT score you need: compare yours with each college's middle 50%, such as 1520 to 1570 on the SAT for MIT's fall 2024 first-years.

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Nine colleges so far, each from its own 2024-25 Common Data Set. Where a college does not publish a range, we say so.

SAT and ACT middle 50% ranges

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SAT middle 50% at each college, 2024-2025 Common Data Sets
  • MIT
  • Princeton
  • HarvardNot published
  • Yale
  • WashU
  • Kansas
  • DartmouthNot published
  • CaltechNot published
  • Georgia Tech
  • Middle 50%
  • Median

Not a cutoff, not a chance. These are scores of students who enrolled and chose to send them. Colleges read scores alongside everything else, and nothing here tells you the odds of admission.

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Questions people ask

What SAT score do you need for MIT?

Half of MIT's fall 2024 first-years who sent the SAT scored from 1520 to 1570, with a median of 1550 (MIT Common Data Set 2024-25). MIT currently requires the SAT or ACT.

What does middle 50% mean?

A quarter of enrolled students who sent that test scored below the 25th percentile score and a quarter above the 75th. It is a range of typical scores, not a cutoff.

Can this tell me my chances?

No. Colleges publish scores of enrolled students, not admission rates by score, so any single chance figure would be invented. We show the overall admit rate separately.

Why is Harvard's SAT range missing?

Harvard's 2024-25 Common Data Set leaves the SAT total blank. We do not add up section ranges to fill it, because that would not be a real total.

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How we work this out

What it does

Compare your score with the middle 50% of enrolled students at MIT, Princeton, Yale, Georgia Tech and more, from each college's own data.

Nine colleges' 2024-25 Common Data Sets (fall 2024 first-years): applicants, admits and the 25th, 50th and 75th percentile SAT and ACT scores of enrolled first-years who sent each test, with each college's current testing rule.

Method

  1. The middle 50% is the range from the 25th to the 75th percentile score the college reports. MIT's SAT range is 1520 to 1570.
  2. Below the 25th or above the 75th, we say so and stop there: the data has no finer detail.
  3. Between two published points, we draw a straight line to give an approximate percentile, and label it as an estimate.
  4. Where a college does not publish a range, such as Harvard's SAT total, Dartmouth and Caltech in this year, we show that it is missing.

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