What would the list of top 10 colleges be if they were ranked by the
number of students who scored 1500 or above on their SATs?  Currently,
colleges are ranked by the average SAT of their students.  The
resulting list includes Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, etc. 
However, these schools have a relatively small student population
(4,000 - 6,000 undergraduates).  Schools like Berkeley, Michigan,
Cornell, have lower SAT averages but far more undergrads.  Perhaps
Berkeley has a larger raw number of undergrad students with SATs at 1500 or
above than, say, Dartmouth (which has a higher average).  I'm trying
to find out what the top 10 rankings would be when based on the raw
number of undergrad students with SATs above 1500 rather than an
average.  I'm referring to the SAT-1 tests, not the SAT-2.

Hmmmm,

I cannot find any rankings to the EXACT specifications you want, i.e.
RAW NUMBERS of students scoring above 1500.

However, I have managed to find a list of rankings (here:
http://collegeapps.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fkiplinger.com%2Fphp%2Fcollege%2F2002%2Fpublic.html)
which allows you to sort by PERCENTAGE of students scoring above 600
on the verbal part of SAT-1, AND (where applicable/known) above 600 on
the maths part.  This is not quite the same as an average, because it
does identify what proportion of incoming students achieved SAT at or
above a given level.  In theory (by looking at admissions figures) it
would be possible to translate this into REAL NUMBERS (but still only
of students scoring over 600 on the maths and/or verbal parts of the
test respectively: NOT the 1500 aggregate score you're looking for).

Anyway, when sorted according to the criteria I've described (well,
tried to, anyway) the top ten come out as:

1. New College of Florida
2. Colorado School of Mines
3. University of Wisconsin, Madison
4. Miami University
5. College of William and Mary (Virginia)
6. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
7. University of Missouri-Rolla
8. Truman State University
9. University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign
10. University of Virginia

Hi Louise,

I don't think your list can be correct.  It includes only public
schools, for example.  Please check this website:
http://www.xap.com/gotocollege/campustour/undergraduate/5234/Truman_State_University/Truman_State_University3.html.
 You will see that Truman State has about 6,000 undergrads, but fewer
than 20% scored above 1400 total on the SAT-1.  That would mean only
1,200 undergrads scored above 1400, and probably only about 200 scored
above 1500.  Harvard also has about 6,000 undergrads but most of them
(over 3,000) scored above 1500.  So Harvard would clearly be on the
list, but not Truman.  This would be true of every Ivy League school,
so all of them would rank higher than Truman State.

Thanks,

Mike

As to the first comment by louise, I would have to agree with the 2nd
comment, that the list is completely inaccurate.  I would venture to
say that only 1 school on her list is actually possibly on the real
top 10 (U of Michigan.) Schools that would likely be at the top of
total numbers of SAT over 1500 are U of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Yale,
Princeton,U of California Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, Duke.