Colleges That Accept a 1500 SAT
A 1500 SAT is a safety at one school and a long shot at another, so these schools are split into likely, target and reach rather than one list. Every number is the school's own average admitted SAT, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Likely
Schools where the average admitted student is below 1500 SAT. You are above their typical applicant.
- Babson College — Wellesley, MA · 1457 avg SAT
- Bentley University — Waltham, MA · 1352 avg SAT
- Santa Clara University — Santa Clara, CA · 1426 avg SAT
- Stevens Institute of Technology — Hoboken, NJ · 1446 avg SAT
- Lehigh University — Bethlehem, PA · 1440 avg SAT
- Villanova University — Villanova, PA · 1460 avg SAT
- Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences — Albany, NY · 1252 avg SAT
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — Troy, NY · 1456 avg SAT
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology — Terre Haute, IN · 1427 avg SAT
- Bucknell University — Lewisburg, PA · 1410 avg SAT
- University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis — Saint Louis, MO · 1131 avg SAT
- College of the Holy Cross — Worcester, MA · 1353 avg SAT
- Colorado School of Mines — Golden, CO · 1412 avg SAT
- Lafayette College — Easton, PA · 1424 avg SAT
- MCPHS University — Boston, MA · 1269 avg SAT
Target
Schools where the average admitted student is right around 1500 SAT. These are realistic, competitive picks.
- Franklin W Olin College of Engineering — Needham, MA · 1520 avg SAT
- Cornell University — Ithaca, NY · 1535 avg SAT
- Georgetown University — Washington, DC · 1487 avg SAT
- Claremont McKenna College — Claremont, CA · 1527 avg SAT
- Yale University — New Haven, CT · 1534 avg SAT
- University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame, IN · 1520 avg SAT
- Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus — Atlanta, GA · 1480 avg SAT
- Boston College — Chestnut Hill, MA · 1507 avg SAT
- Dartmouth College — Hanover, NH · 1534 avg SAT
- Washington and Lee University — Lexington, VA · 1498 avg SAT
- Northwestern University — Evanston, IL · 1533 avg SAT
- University of Southern California — Los Angeles, CA · 1495 avg SAT
- Williams College — Williamstown, MA · 1533 avg SAT
- Northeastern University — Boston, MA · 1497 avg SAT
- University of Virginia-Main Campus — Charlottesville, VA · 1480 avg SAT
Reach
Schools where the average admitted student is above 1500 SAT. Possible, but you would be applying from below the median.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Cambridge, MA · 1560 avg SAT
- Stanford University — Stanford, CA · 1553 avg SAT
- Harvey Mudd College — Claremont, CA · 1545 avg SAT
- University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, PA · 1553 avg SAT
- Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, PA · 1546 avg SAT
- Princeton University — Princeton, NJ · 1553 avg SAT
- Harvard University — Cambridge, MA · 1553 avg SAT
- Columbia University in the City of New York — New York, NY · 1553 avg SAT
- Duke University — Durham, NC · 1548 avg SAT
- Brown University — Providence, RI · 1546 avg SAT
- University of Chicago — Chicago, IL · 1554 avg SAT
- Rice University — Houston, TX · 1553 avg SAT
- Vanderbilt University — Nashville, TN · 1549 avg SAT
- Johns Hopkins University — Baltimore, MD · 1553 avg SAT
By state
Colleges That Accept a 1500 SAT on PickACampus
