Colleges you can get into with a 820 SAT
Every school where a 820 lands above, within or below the middle 50% of enrolled students' SAT scores.
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Ranked against students who took the SAT in recent graduating classes — the group on your score report, and the one colleges use.
a 820 is higher than
A 820 is higher than about 12% of SAT takers. It lands inside the middle 50% at 33 colleges.
Colleges for a 820 SAT
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Within range means 820 falls inside the college's middle 50% SAT range.
LA · 35% admitted · 5,519 undergrads
7901020TX · 39% admitted · 1,005 undergrads
8001160FL · 43% admitted · 756 undergrads
7901070MS · 45% admitted · 2,363 undergrads
670998DE · 47% admitted · 4,398 undergrads
8001020IL · 48% admitted · 708 undergrads
8161118PR · 55% admitted · 2,404 undergrads
8091057AL · 58% admitted · 6,124 undergrads
8101040DC · 58% admitted · 812 undergrads
7801022VA · 62% admitted · 3,727 undergrads
7901090NY · 64% admitted · 4,345 undergrads
790960OK · 65% admitted · 1,498 undergrads
8031036PA · 66% admitted · 1,539 undergrads
820960MO · 68% admitted · 1,341 undergrads
8101210MI · 69% admitted · 1,495 undergrads
8061073KY · 75% admitted · 558 undergrads
710960MD · 79% admitted · 1,133 undergrads
7401330LA · 79% admitted · 1,055 undergrads
8201050PR · 81% admitted · 1,883 undergrads
7911023KS · 83% admitted · 870 undergrads
7501000KS · 87% admitted · 925 undergrads
8061028MO · 88% admitted · 1,312 undergrads
800960GA · 91% admitted · 13,693 undergrads
7601020MS · 93% admitted · 4,600 undergrads
8201070OH · 93% admitted · 939 undergrads
7901010WV · 96% admitted · 1,321 undergrads
7601040TX · 97% admitted · 6,844 undergrads
8001000IL · 98% admitted · 955 undergrads
7711230AL · 98% admitted · 3,477 undergrads
749967IL · 98% admitted · 27,825 undergrads
7001030WV · 99% admitted · 2,590 undergrads
8101070VI · 99% admitted · 1,518 undergrads
7831030GA · 99% admitted · 5,625 undergrads
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How to read a college's SAT range
- Enrolled, not admitted. The middle 50% counts students who showed up in the fall, so it can run a little below the admitted range.
- Totals are section sums. The Scorecard publishes section ranges; the true total-score 25th percentile is usually a bit higher.
- Test-optional skews high. Only students who sent scores are counted — read the range as the bar for a score worth sending.
- Under ~15% admitted changes the question. There, SAT position alone doesn't predict admission.
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FAQ
Is a 820 a good SAT score?
A 820 is higher than about 12% of the students who take the SAT. Whether it is good enough is a question about your list, not about the number: use the tabs above to see which schools it puts you inside, at the top of, or below.
What colleges can I get into with a 820 SAT?
33 colleges in our dataset have a middle-50% range that contains 820, and at 0 more it sits above the range entirely. Both lists are above, and every school links to its own page with section ranges, admit rate and test policy.
Do these lists include test-optional colleges?
Yes. At a test-optional school the range counts only the students who sent a score, so it reads a little high — treat it as the bar for a score worth sending. Each college page shows that school's current test policy.
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Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, data release June 10, 2026. SAT ranges are the 25th–75th percentiles of enrolled first-year students (Fall 2024 entering class, IPEDS). Total-score ranges are the sum of the section percentiles. Applicant counts and year-over-year trends come from the NCES IPEDS Admissions survey; schools report about eighteen months after they admit a class, so the newest complete year is not the current cycle. Ranked lists cover schools with at least 1,000 undergraduates — and, for the trend lists, at least 1,000 applicants in both years — because below those floors one strong year reads as a huge swing. Percentile: College Board, SAT Understanding Scores (SAT User percentiles, 2024 edition; approximate).