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SAT-required, Highest Medians

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# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 MIT
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA 1,099 5% 51% / 49% 10% $165,471 —
2 Caltech
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena, CA 235 4% 57% / 43% 9% — —
3 Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, MD
Baltimore, MD 1,344 6% 48% / 52% 13% $103,798 —
4 Harvard
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA 1,912 3% 50% / 50% 11% $122,351 —

Above Average in High School is Not Enough

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Rice
Houston, TX
Houston, TX 1,069 8% 53% / 47% 12% $129,896 —
2 U. of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, PA 2,806 4% 46% / 54% 12% $174,961 —
3 Yale
New Haven, CT
New Haven, CT 1,665 4% 49% / 51% 8% $136,001 —
4 Brown
Providence, RI
Providence, RI 1,944 5% 48% / 52% 11% $126,336 —
5 Northwestern
Evanston, IL
Evanston, IL 2,159 7% 45% / 55% 10% $97,375 —
6 Vanderbilt
Nashville, TN
Nashville, TN 1,855 4% 47% / 53% 8% $99,854 —
7 Dartmouth
Hanover, NH
Hanover, NH 1,257 6% 52% / 48% 9% $116,643 —
8 Cornell
Ithaca, NY
Ithaca, NY 3,875 7% 46% / 54% 10% $113,181 —
9 U. of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Notre Dame, IN 2,357 9% 51% / 49% 4% $116,199 —
10 Georgetown
Washington, DC
Washington, DC 1,835 13% 43% / 57% 14% $93,797 —
11 United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, MD
Annapolis, MD 1,054 9% 70% / 30% 1% — —
12 Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA 4,576 13% 62% / 38% 11% $132,716 —
13 U. of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Austin, TX 10,478 22% 42% / 58% 4% $89,009 —