Scores Colleges Want

I made a list of the score ranges for many of the colleges you guys expressed interest in. Click here to check out the list. The score ranges listed represent the middle 50% of scores of accepted students at these schools. That means 25% of students had lower scores, while 25% had higher scores than these ranges. You should aim to be somewhere near the middle or upper end of these ranges to be a competitive candidate. 

If you want to find out the score ranges for schools not on the list, you can do that research at https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/. To find the score ranges for a particular school, search the school's name in the grey search bar in the upper right. Then click on the school's name in the search results. To find the scores, click "Applying," then scroll down to the bar that says "What's Important" in pink and click "SAT & ACT Scores." There you can find all the reported score info for that school.

There's a ton of other information about almost every school listed on that site, too. Those of you who are juniors should start getting pretty serious about your college search this spring. Poke around the Big Future site to start looking at your options. There's a cool custom search feature that lets you find schools based on your preferences for various categories -- location, cost, majors, extra-curriculars, etc.

Let me know if you need help researching schools or have any other questions.