When you’re applying to schools, there are three stats which you want to look at to determine your chance of acceptance.  The average admitted student’s GPA, standardized test scores and class rank.  Fundamentally, you don’t know how good your essays or interviews will turn out so it’s easier just to look at what can be quantified.  The first two stats I listed are self-explanatory.  The only caveat comes with a student’s GPA.  Many colleges unweight GPAs when they collect them since there is no universal way of weighing GPAs between school districts.  However, there’s no universal standard as to whether the outward facing data is weighted or not.  Class rank is a little tricky to examine.  Schools won’t publish the average class rank of their student body, rather they show how much of their population falls within certain thresholds such as the top ten or twenty-five percent.

When you gauge your odds of acceptance, remember to look at each school’s common data set.  Colleges place differing weight on different numbers.  Some such as UCLA and the University of Michigan don’t care about your class rank, while others such as Wesleyan care about your class rank just as much as your standardized test scores.  There’s no clear-cut way to get an exact read on your odds of acceptance to any school.

But, what you can do is contact Ivy Admissions!  We have deep relationships with many admissions officers throughout the country and have conducted extensive research about every part of the college application process, including the stats needed for acceptance to our nation’s top universities.  Here’s some of our findings collected in one place.  Use these to begin setting goal posts for yourself if you’ve yet to start thinking earnestly about applying to college or get a better idea if you’ll be accepted to your top school, if you’re further along in the process.  All this data is from the most recent year available.

School SAT Range (25th-75th percentile) ACT Range (25th-75th percentile) Average GPA Percent of Students in Top 10% of Graduating Class Percent of Students in Top 25% of Graduating Class 2017 Acceptance Rate
American University 1150-1340 26-31 Not Supplied Not Supplied Not Supplied 29%
Amherst College 1360-1560 31-34 Not Supplied 87% 96% 14%
Binghamton University -SUNY 1230-1400 28-31 3.70 Not Supplied Not Supplied 42%
Boston University 1220-1420 28-32 3.62 63% 91% 29%
Brandeis University 1250-1470 29-32 3.95 71% 89% 34%
Brigham Young University – Provo 1160-1380 27-31 3.84 55% 86% 53%
Brown University 1370-1570 31-34 Not Supplied 92% 99% 8.3%
California Institute of Technology 1530-1600 34-36 Not Supplied 97% 100% 8%
Carnegie Mellon University 1380-1550 31-34 3.76 75% 95% 22%
College of William and Mary 1250-1470 28-33 4.20 78% 96% 37%
Columbia University 1510-1580 32-35 Not Supplied 90% Not Supplied 6%
Cornell University 1330-1530 31-34 Not Supplied 90% 98% 12.5%
Dartmouth College 1480 32 Not Supplied 90% 99% 10.4%
Duke University 1350-1560 30-34 Not Supplied 91% 97% 11%
Emory University 1330-1420 31-34 3.84 Not Supplied Not Supplied 22%
Georgetown University 1320-1520 30-34 Not Supplied 91% 97% 15.4%
Harvard University 1410-1600 32-35 4.03 95% 100% 5.2%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1460-1590 33-35 Not Supplied 97% 100% 7.1%
New York University 1250-1480 29-33 3.64 61% 87% 27%
Northeastern University 1310-1510 31-34 Not Supplied 76% 94% 28%
Northwestern University 1400-1560 32-34 Not Supplied 91% 100% 9%
Princeton University 1400-1590 32-35 3.89 94% 99% 6.1%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1280-1480 28-32 3.88 66% 93% 44%
Rice University 1410-1570 32-35 Not Supplied 88% 97% 15%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick 1100-1350 Not Supplied Not Supplied 41% 78% 57%
Stanford University 1380-1580 31-35 3.94 95% 99% 4.65%
Tufts University 1370-1520 31-34 Not Supplied Not Supplied Not Supplied 14%
University of California – Berkeley 1300-1530 29-34 3.86 98% 100% 17%
University of California – Los Angeles 1150-1440 25-33 4.33 97% 100% 18%
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor 1310-1500 29-33 3.84 Not Supplied Not Supplied 29%
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill 1200-1390 27-32 4.63 77% 96% 30%
University of Notre Dame 1350-1540 32-35 Not Supplied 91% 98% 19%
University of Pennsylvania 1380-1570 32-35 3.91 95% 100% 9.2%
University of Southern California 1280-1500 30-33 3.73 88% 96% 17%
Vanderbilt University 1420-1590 32-25 3.80 87% 97% 11%
Wake Forest University 1240-1440 28-32 Not Supplied 78% 92% 30%
Washington University in St. Louis 1420-1570 32-34 Not Supplied 92% 99% 17%
Wesleyan University 1250-1480 30-33 Not supplied 69% Not Supplied 18%
Yale University 1420-1600 32-35 Not Supplied 94% 99% 6.9%