Can you name the name the top 30 schools based on avg (75th percentile) SAT scores? by tomahaha

rank	College	Avg. SAT Score (2010)
16		1530
17		1520
18		1520
19		1520
20		1520
21		1520
22		1510
23		1510
24		1500
25		1500
26		1500
27		1500
28		1500
29		1500
30		1500
31	1500
32	1500
35	1500
36	1500
37	1500
39	1500
40	1500
41	1500
42	1500
44	1500
45	1500
49	1500
50	1500
52	1500
53	1500
56	1500
61	1500
69	1500
70	1500
84	1500
91	1500
92	1500
100	1500

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	johnlk:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 06:05 GMT		24 points
	Ah, I see these aren't average SAT scores at all; they're 75th percentile SAT scores. That's quite different.

	erin9311:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 12:52 GMT		16 points
	Well, at least i'm in the other 96.8% or so that didn't recognize the first college. Or half of the other ones

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	boyzfootball4:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 15:16 GMT		3 points
	Seminary? What the duece?

	tomahaha:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 15:24 GMT		2 points
	agreed ...but it's a college, and apparently one that's not so easy to get into, who knew?

	Hejman:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 16:00 GMT		20 points
	Interesting note- Entertainment and Science editor sproutcm is a Professor of Chemistry at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.

	baconstud01:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 16:12 GMT		5 points
	What's so confusing about the 75th percentile? Any college guide you can find usually reports the 25th and 75th percentile SAT scores for all schools (and typically for graduate tests/schools as well). I'm not sure that the list would really change that much if you were doing the mean or median vs the 75th, but the scores themselves would obviously be different. If you're going by 75th percentile scores, that should be included in the description.

	tomahaha:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 16:38 GMT		2 points
	I aim to please! I added that in the description field. Still based on SAT scores so nothing really changed but that blurb is indicated (it required changing some wording around but it is now included)

	luke78:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 16:54 GMT		-1 points
	got all but 1 and 30....never even heard of them.

	YoshiEgg25:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 17:28 GMT		4 points
	My dad wanted me to apply to Olin College. I told him no.

	Ned:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 19:22 GMT		9 points
	I got into... drumroll... none of these!

	scherny05:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 20:01 GMT		4 points
	yeah Olin from my hometown of needham massachusetts

	Taffinski99:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 20:10 GMT		1 point
	you should accept FW Olin

	tomahaha:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 20:29 GMT		2 points
	got it, "Olin" was already accepted but "FW Olin" is now on there as well! You should see how many alternates are allowed on such a list!

	pomegranatepolly:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 20:55 GMT		2 points
	Well, I'm glad I went ahead and clicked "give up" after getting all except #30, since that would've been a minute and a half of futile guessing... Also, perhaps try accepting more versions of #10...Washington University in St Louis (which is the official full name), what you have but without parentheses, St/Saint alternates, WashU, WUStL...you don't need all of these, certainly, but I tried several and gave up before going back later and finding a format that was accepted. (I admit, this probably doesn't affect that many, since most would start by typing "Washington," which you accept, but it gave me an issue, so if there's room, it might be worth it.)

	nightfloat:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 21:20 GMT		3 points
	Wow, I can't believe I never heard of Olin even though I lived in MA at the time it opened. Learning through Sporcle. :) Fun quiz, and happy to see the alma mater on it! :D

	twarner50:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 21:32 GMT		18 points
	Funny, no John Calipari employers appear on this list.

	dxdtdemon:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 21:58 GMT		-3 points
	Since the Claremont Colleges sometimes do things together and sometimes do things separately, could Pomona and Harvey Mudd also be accepted by typing in Claremont and not just Claremont McKenna?

	pita:	Dec 2nd, 2010 at 22:54 GMT		2 points
	Don't put bonus answers that are the subset of real answers, like Cal when I'm typing in Cal Tech. That's just annoying.

	thevelocirapper:	Dec 3rd, 2010 at 00:46 GMT		2 points
	very minute mistake, you had Rochester (bonus answer at #69) with a 14100 average sat score, which I'm assuming is because of a zero where a parentheses was supposed to be, or Rochester students really figured out the SAT

	tomahaha:	Dec 3rd, 2010 at 00:55 GMT		1 point
	hahaha, maybe it was no mistake? I happen to live in Rochester! All fixed

	tomahaha:	Dec 3rd, 2010 at 01:06 GMT		0 points
	others... Cal and Cal Tech are different schools! Cal Tech is and has been an accepted answer, Cal is not on the list. There are several Claremont Colleges (all quite good schools) but all are different and as such must be separate. I do have "McKenna" only but to type "Claremont" only is not acceptable since it could be one of several schools ...sorry. I was thinking of adding Claremont only as a bonus asking for further clarification, but then it being part of another answer would pop up too soon, I did try to think of most alternates. And Washington St Louis, how many alternates do you want? "Washington" alone works and as it is could be confused with Washington University (not on the list)

	jcool155:	Dec 3rd, 2010 at 01:40 GMT		4 points
	Accept "Wash U" or "WUSTL" for "washington university"... the university is popularly known by those names, and many other college quizzes on Sprocle also accept those two alternate names.

	ShortyNJ:	Dec 3rd, 2010 at 02:45 GMT		2 points
	St Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary??

	jslewitz:	Dec 3rd, 2010 at 04:48 GMT		7 points
	I'm from Chicago. The only two universities that I missed? U of C and Northwestern.

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	jUNKIEd:	Dec 3rd, 2010 at 21:47 GMT		-3 points
	Just typing Washington wasn't good enough for Washington University?

	Morbo:	Dec 4th, 2010 at 02:04 GMT		21 points
	Shocked -- SHOCKED! -- that the DeVry Institute did not make the cut.

	tomahaha:	Dec 4th, 2010 at 14:55 GMT		1 point
	Washington University of St Louis, Washington State, University of Washington, George Washington? The list goes on...

	mattv1:	Dec 5th, 2010 at 02:14 GMT		11 points
	@Morbo: I know! University of Phoenix was also left off. How about that?

	chains:	Dec 7th, 2010 at 21:11 GMT		-3 points
	Considering SAT scores have been out of 2400 since 2005, I'm seriously confused why the scores are so low... Average for each section, from everyone that has taken the SAT, is around 500, making the average score of all high schoolers be around 1500... and i know the most elite universities in the nation aren't accepting just average high school students.

	NUguy514:	Dec 7th, 2010 at 21:52 GMT		6 points
	@chains: These scores refer to the combined Math and Critical Reading scores and don't factor in the Writing scores, so these scores are basically out of 1600. I believe it's because the Writing section is still so new that there isn't enough statistical data to analyze trends, but I could be 100% wrong about that! :)

	tomahaha:	Dec 8th, 2010 at 14:01 GMT		0 points
	Yeah, the writing section was somewhat recently added. Scores were only math and reading all along, they simply ignore the writing now. I doubt the school completely ignores it, but it means far less than math and reading.

	WCRoentgen:	Dec 9th, 2010 at 03:06 GMT		4 points
	Please accept CMU for Carnegie Mellon. That's how it's usually referred to by students, profs and alumni.

	lbr218:	Dec 10th, 2010 at 15:50 GMT		-1 points
	The only one of these I got into was #47... Brandeis. But, I also only applied to one (Brown) that was above #47, so I'm not that pissed :P

	Esme:	May 10th, 2011 at 02:48 GMT		2 points
	What's up with accepting "Harvey Mud"? That feels kinda like accepting "Brow" or "Tuft."