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.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, NC · 1439 avg SAT
University of Florida — Gainesville, FL · 1403 avg SAT
The University of Texas at Austin — Austin, TX · 1395 avg SAT
The University of Texas at San Antonio — San Antonio, TX · 1105 avg SAT
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — Champaign, IL · 1440 avg SAT
University of Wisconsin-Madison — Madison, WI · 1427 avg SAT
Sewanee: The University of the South — Sewanee, TN · 1280 avg SAT
Ohio State University-Main Campus — Columbus, OH · 1387 avg SAT
Rutgers University-New Brunswick — New Brunswick, NJ · 1410 avg SAT
Purdue University-Main Campus — West Lafayette, IN · 1364 avg SAT
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus — University Park, PA · 1337 avg SAT
University of Georgia — Athens, GA · 1397 avg SAT
Lehigh University — Bethlehem, PA · 1440 avg SAT
Indiana University-Bloomington — Bloomington, IN · 1313 avg SAT
Michigan State University — East Lansing, MI · 1269 avg SAT

Target

Schools where the average admitted student is right around 1500 SAT. These are realistic, competitive picks.

Yale University — New Haven, CT · 1534 avg SAT
Northwestern University — Evanston, IL · 1533 avg SAT
Cornell University — Ithaca, NY · 1535 avg SAT
Dartmouth College — Hanover, NH · 1534 avg SAT
University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame, IN · 1520 avg SAT
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor — Ann Arbor, MI · 1465 avg SAT
Washington University in St Louis — St. Louis, MO · 1530 avg SAT
Georgetown University — Washington, DC · 1487 avg SAT
Emory University — Atlanta, GA · 1520 avg SAT
University of Virginia-Main Campus — Charlottesville, VA · 1480 avg SAT
University of Southern California — Los Angeles, CA · 1495 avg SAT
Wake Forest University — Winston-Salem, NC · 1475 avg SAT
New York University — New York, NY · 1520 avg SAT
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus — Atlanta, GA · 1480 avg SAT
Tufts University — Medford, MA · 1513 avg SAT

Reach

Schools where the average admitted student is above 1500 SAT. Possible, but you would be applying from below the median.

Princeton University — Princeton, NJ · 1553 avg SAT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Cambridge, MA · 1560 avg SAT
Harvard University — Cambridge, MA · 1553 avg SAT
Stanford University — Stanford, CA · 1553 avg SAT
University of Chicago — Chicago, IL · 1554 avg SAT
University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, PA · 1553 avg SAT
Duke University — Durham, NC · 1548 avg SAT
Johns Hopkins University — Baltimore, MD · 1553 avg SAT
Brown University — Providence, RI · 1546 avg SAT
Columbia University in the City of New York — New York, NY · 1553 avg SAT
Rice University — Houston, TX · 1553 avg SAT
Vanderbilt University — Nashville, TN · 1549 avg SAT
Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, PA · 1546 avg SAT
Harvey Mudd College — Claremont, CA · 1545 avg SAT

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