Rank | | SAT/ACT 25th-75th percentile |
| University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | |
| University of California—Berkeley Berkeley, CA | |
| University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | |
| New York University New York, NY | |
| University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA | |
| Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA | |
| University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | |
| University of Texas—Austin Austin, TX | |
| Cornell University Ithaca, NY | |
| Indiana University—Bloomington Bloomington, IN | |
| University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN | |
| University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA | |
| Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO | |
| Emory University Atlanta, GA | |
| Georgetown University Washington, DC | |
| Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA | |
| University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL | |
| University of Minnesota—Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN | |
| University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI | |
| Ohio State University—Columbus Columbus, OH | |
| Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA | |
| Michigan State University East Lansing, MI | |
| Pennsylvania State University—University Park University Park, PA | |
| Purdue University—West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN | |
| University of Arizona Tucson, AZ | |
| University of Maryland—College Park College Park, MD | |
| University of Washington Seattle, WA | |