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Top 500 Ranked Colleges - Highest ACT 75th Percentile Scores

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Top 500 Ranked Colleges - Highest ACT 75th Percentile Scores

Rank Highest ACT 75th Percentile Scores
2020 2015 School Name 2020 2015
1 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 36 35 (2.9%)
2 5 California Institute of Technology 36 35 (2.9%)
3 9 Washington University in St Louis 35 34 (2.9%)
4 1 Harvey Mudd College 35 No Change
5 10 Duke University 35 34 (2.9%)
6 12 Johns Hopkins University 35 34 (2.9%)
7 33 University of California-Berkeley 35 33 (6.1%)
8 13 University of Notre Dame 35 34 (2.9%)
9 15 University of Pennsylvania 35 34 (2.9%)
10 2 University of Chicago 35 No Change
11 17 Rice University 35 34 (2.9%)
12 18 Dartmouth College 35 34 (2.9%)
13 19 Stanford University 35 34 (2.9%)
14 20 Carnegie Mellon University 35 34 (2.9%)
15 21 Brown University 35 34 (2.9%)
16 22 Franklin W Olin College of Engineering 35 34 (2.9%)
17 23 Vanderbilt University 35 34 (2.9%)
18 24 Northwestern University 35 34 (2.9%)
19 25 Williams College 35 34 (2.9%)
20 4 Yale University 35 No Change

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