A 1440 is in the 95th percentile: it beats about 95 of every 100 SAT takers. Among the 400 most-applied-to colleges that report SAT ranges, it's at or above the 75th percentile at 311 of them, inside the middle 50% at 70 and just below the 25th percentile at 19.
93rd–95th percentile: strong at flagships and many selective colleges.
A 1440 is in the 95th percentile, so it beats about 95 of every 100 test takers. It's at or above the middle 50% range at most state flagships and many selective private colleges.
At the most selective colleges a 1440 is usually below the middle 50% range. It doesn't rule you out there, but the rest of the application has to be exceptional.
For scale: a 1390 is the 92nd percentile and a 1490 is the 97th. Check your own estimate with the SAT score calculator, or any score's rank with the SAT percentile calculator.
The middle 50% is the range between the 25th and 75th percentile SAT scores of a college's first-year students. Above the 75th percentile, your score is a strength; inside the range, it's typical; below the 25th, it's a reach that the rest of the application has to make up for.
| College | Middle 50% | Admit |
|---|---|---|
| The Ohio State University | 1250–1440 | 57% |
| North Carolina State University | 1270–1440 | 47% |
| American University | 1280–1440 | 64% |
| United States Military Academy at West Point | 1200–1440 | 11% |
| Pepperdine University | 1260–1440 | 53% |
| Brigham Young University | 1220–1440 | 59% |
| Skidmore College | 1270–1440 | 31% |
| Trinity University | 1280–1440 | 34% |
| College | Middle 50% | Admit |
|---|---|---|
| University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | 1340–1520 | 20% |
| Boston University | 1360–1520 | 19% |
| Northeastern University | 1430–1550 | 18% |
| University of Southern California | 1410–1540 | 13% |
| University of Texas - Austin | 1230–1500 | 29% |
| University of Wisconsin | 1320–1500 | 60% |
| University of Florida | 1300–1470 | 30% |
| University of Maryland - College Park | 1330–1510 | 52% |
| College | Middle 50% | Admit |
|---|---|---|
| New York University | 1450–1570 | 13% |
| Cornell University | 1450–1560 | 9% |
| Brown University | 1460–1570 | 6% |
| Princeton University | 1460–1570 | 4% |
| Columbia University | 1470–1570 | 4% |
| Stanford University | 1470–1570 | 4% |
| Duke University | 1470–1570 | 6% |
| Northwestern University | 1470–1570 | 7% |
Ranges are each college's most recently reported middle 50% for students who submitted scores, from our college database. University of California and Cal State campuses are left out because they don't consider SAT scores. Look up any college with the college SAT lookup.
The SAT reports Reading and Writing and Math separately, 200–800 each. Colleges see both, so the same 1440 can read differently for an engineering program than for an English major.
| Profile | Reading and Writing | Math |
|---|---|---|
| Even split | 720 | 720 |
| Reading and Writing–leaning | 770 | 670 |
| Math-leaning | 670 | 770 |
Worth it if several colleges on your list are in the within-reach table above, where a 1440 is under the 25th percentile. If your list is flagships and selective privates where 1440 is already in range, the score has done its job.
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