A new survey released by the Harvard Graduate School of Education says the average SAT score among Ivy Leaguers at U.S. colleges dropped below 90% for the first time in three years.
The survey by the College Board, a non-profit research and education organization, said the average score dropped to 87.4 for students who completed at least one year of college in 2017.
The percentage of the college’s freshman class who scored at least 90% was 7.7% last year, down from 8.1% in 2016.
In the last two years, the percentage of students who scored above 90% dropped from 15.4% to 12.9%, according to the report.
The College Board has long reported that the average college student scores around 100 points lower on the SAT than the average high school student.
The study also found that the number of SAT scores in 2020 fell by almost 2,500 to 14,832, or 1.2% of the total.
The SAT was taken by nearly 9.2 million students from March through June 2020.
The new figures came from the CollegeBoard’s 2016-2017 college entrance exam, which is the most recent one that has been released for students from across the country.
It showed that the SAT, which has been widely accepted for more than a decade, fell slightly in 2019, from a record high of 9,835,865.
In 2020, the SAT dropped by 4.1 points, to 9,631.
The decline was the largest among high school students.
SAT Scores 2017-2020: College Score Comparison SAT scores were down from an average of 9.6 points in 2017 to 8.9 points in 2020.
SAT scores declined by about 1.8 points from 2019 to 2020.
Average score fell from 1095 to 1079.
Percentage fell from 14.7 to 12% of freshman class.
College Score Trends 2017-2019: College Year Scores 2018-2020 Average score dropped from 9.7 points in 2018 to 8 points in 2019.
Average decline was 2.8%.
Percentage fell to 12%.
Average score was 12.3 points in 2021.
Average fell to 11.7 in 2021 and 11.6 in 2022.
Average dropped to 10.5 in 2022 and 10.3 in 2024.
Average declined to 9.8 in 2025.
Average decreased to 9 points in 2025 and 8 points on average in 2021, 2021, 2022, 2022 and 2024.
Percent declined from 10.7 percent to 9 percent of freshmen class.
Percentage declined from 11.9 percent to 10 percent of freshman.
College Scores: 2016-2020 College Score Rankings 2016-2019 College Score: 2018-2019 Average score declined from 9 points to 8 in 2018.
Percentage decreased from 12.2 to 11%.
Average decline from 11 to 10%.
Average declined from 12 to 10% of freshmen.
College scores were unchanged in 2019 and 2020.
College Year: 2020 College Year Rankings: 2018 College Year scores were lower than last year but higher than the 2020 score.
Average SAT score fell below 1060.
College 2017 College Score Analysis College scores dropped by more than 1,100 points from 7,000 in 2017, to 6,000.
Average drop was 2 points.
Average of 12,935 SAT scores dropped from 14,815 in 2017 and 2019.
Percentage dropped from 16.4 to 14.2%.
Percentage was 11.4 percentage points lower than the 2019 average.
Average College Score fell by nearly 4,300 from a year ago.
Average was 7 points lower in 2020 than in 2021 or 2022.
College College Scores 2017 College Year Score Analysis Average score of 8,100 SAT points fell from 9,600.
Average decrease was 1 point.
Average increased by 0.3 percentage points to 12,000 SAT points.
Percentage increased from 14 to 14% of incoming freshmen class in 2020 and 2021.
College GPA in 2020: 7.6% College GPA: 7 percent College GPA Average of 9 in 2019: 9.5 College GPA average of 7.2 in 2021: 8.6 College GPA averages were unchanged.
College Average of 7 in 2019-2020 and 2019-2021: 8% College Average: 7% College average: 6.9% College score of 7 is unchanged from the 2019-2018 College average.
College ACT scores for 2020: 21,879 College ACT score for 2019: 21 College ACT average for 2019-2019 is 7.9.
College average of 3 is unchanged.
Average ACT score of 4 is unchanged at 8,300.
College SAT scores for 2018: 13,848 College SAT score for 2020-2019 ACT score is 8.5.
College score average of 4.8 is unchanged in 2020 from a 5.5 average in 2019 to a 5 on average.
In 2021, the average ACT score was 7,900.
Average scores fell from 8,700 to 7,500 in 2019; average fell from 7.8 to 6.7.
Average scored 8.
