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Comparing NC State to Research Peer Institutions

SAT/ACT Scores of Entering Freshmen Fall 2007
(25th/75th Percentile)

Institution
SAT/ACT 25th-75th percentile Fall 07 *
Yale University
1400-1590
Harvard University
1400-1590
Princeton University
1390-1580
California Institute of Technology
1470-1580
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1380-1560
Stanford University
1340-1550
Duke University
1340-1540
Columbia University In The City of New York
1360-1540
Rice University
1310-1530
University of Chicago
1330-1530
University of Pennsylvania
1330-1530
Brown University
1330-1530
Washington University In St Louis
1370-1530
Northwestern University
1350-1520
Cornell Univ
1290-1500
Johns Hopkins University
1290-1500
Carnegie Mellon University
1290-1490
Vanderbilt University
1300-1480
University of California-Berkeley
1220-1470
Emory University
1300-1470
University of Southern California
1270-1460
Brandeis University
1280-1460
University of California-Los Angeles
1180-1430
New York University
1240-1430
University of Virginia-Main Campus
1200-1420
University of Rochester
1230-1420
Georgia  Tech
1240-1420
Case Western Reserve University
1200-1410
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1210-1400
Univ. of Maryland
1170-1380
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor*
1220-1380
Univ of Illinois – Urbana* 
1180-1380
The University of Texas at Austin
1110-1370
Tulane University of Louisiana
1190-1370
University of California-San Diego
1130-1360
University of Florida
1140-1360
Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison* 
1180-1340
University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus
1150-1340
Syracuse University
1110-1330
University of Washington-Seattle Campus
1090-1320
University of California-Santa Barbara
1070-1310
Univ. of Georgia
1130-1310
University of California-Irvine
1070-1300
Texas A&M Univ
1080-1300
Penn State Univ.
1090-1300
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
1090-1300
Ohio State* 
1140-1300
Univ of Minnesota*
1110-1300
Virginia Tech
1100-1300
Univ  of California – Davis
1030-1290
Suny at Stony Brook
1080-1280
Purdue Univ. - Main Campus
1020-1270
University of Nebraska at Lincoln*
1030-1260
University of Colorado at Boulder*
1070-1260
University of Missouri-Columbia*
1070-1260
Indiana University-Bloomington
1030-1260
Suny at Buffalo
1040-1260
NC State Univ.
1070-1260
Iowa State Univ* 
1030-1220
Michigan State*
1070-1220
University of Iowa*
1070-1220
University of Arizona
970-1220
University of Oregon
982-1217

Definition: SAT/ACT scores: Average test scores on the SAT or ACT of all enrolled students for the fall 2007 entering class, converted to percentile scores by using the distribution of all test takers.

Source: US News America's Best Colleges, August 2008
*These institutions use ACT rather than SAT. A conversion table from The College Board was used to provide a rough estimate of the SAT at these percentiles.

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