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% |
