SAT and ACT Score Checker: Which Colleges Fit Your Score?
Enter an SAT total or an ACT composite and see where it falls against the middle 50% of enrolled students at 972 colleges. It shows facts about each college's students, not whether you would be admitted.
Check your score
Enter a score to see the three groups.
Score pages
Each page lists the colleges where that score is reach, typical or above typical, with net price and acceptance rate. A page exists only when at least 15 colleges have the score inside their middle 50%.
SAT score pages
ACT score pages
- 18 ACT233 typical
- 19 ACT314 typical
- 20 ACT373 typical
- 21 ACT431 typical
- 22 ACT473 typical
- 23 ACT488 typical
- 24 ACT500 typical
- 25 ACT459 typical
- 26 ACT414 typical
- 27 ACT366 typical
- 28 ACT332 typical
- 29 ACT282 typical
- 30 ACT225 typical
- 31 ACT186 typical
- 32 ACT144 typical
- 33 ACT112 typical
- 34 ACT87 typical
- 35 ACT44 typical
How to read a middle 50% range
Every college that reports test scores to the federal government publishes two cut points: the 25th percentile and the 75th percentile of the scores of its enrolled first-year students. A quarter of students scored below the lower number, a quarter scored above the higher one, and the middle half scored in between. That middle half is the range you see here.
We compare your score with that range and put each college in one of three groups. Reach means your score is below the 25th percentile. Typical means it is inside the range. Above typical means it is above the 75th percentile. A college in the typical group can still turn you down, and a reach college can still say yes, because admission also weighs grades, courses, essays, activities and many other things.
The ranges describe students who enrolled, not applicants and not admitted students who went elsewhere. Many colleges no longer require a test, and when scores are optional the students who send them tend to be the higher scorers, so published ranges at those colleges can run high. Colleges that never report scores, or whose figures are suppressed, are left out of every list.
SAT totals here are approximations: the sum of the Reading and Writing and Math percentiles, because Scorecard publishes sections, not totals. We do not convert between the SAT and the ACT. If you took both tests, check each one on its own.
Questions about score ranges
Does a typical score mean I will be admitted?
No. It means your score is inside the middle 50% of students who enrolled. Admission decisions also weigh grades, course rigor, essays, recommendations and, at some colleges, interest and background. Use the groups to build a balanced list, not to predict a decision.
Why are some colleges missing?
Colleges are left out when Scorecard has no 25th and 75th percentile for the test, which includes many open-admission and test-blind colleges, and when the figures are suppressed or inconsistent. The page for each score states how many were left out.
Should I send my score to a test-optional college?
A common rule of thumb is to send it when it is at or above the college's median, and to think harder when it is below the 25th percentile. Because test-optional ranges often skew high, check the college's own admissions page too. Our guide on test-optional colleges walks through it.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, June 2026 release, which carries the fall 2024 admissions data reported to IPEDS. The methodology page explains how we handle missing values.
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Data: College Scorecard, June 2026