While you can go directly to individual college admissions sites (specifically the Freshman Profile Information section) to get test score information, this is very time consuming because you end up going to many different college sites.

A more efficient method is to use one source that provides test scores for all or most colleges. Some of those resources are:

• U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges hard copy or online:
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges

• The College Board’s College Handbook or College Board online:
www.collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/index.jsp

• College guides such as The Fiske Guide and The Insider’s Guide

Having said all this about test scores, you might be interested to know that a growing number of colleges don’t use standardized test scores at all or make test score use optional. www.fairtest.org lists the more than 800 four year colleges who follow this practice, including Bard College, Bowdoin College, Sarah Lawrence College and Wake Forest University.

3. Acceptances Rates For Each College
Another factor affecting your admission chances at different colleges is their respective acceptance rates.

Acceptance Rate (or Percentage of Acceptances) is the ratio of students who are admitted to a college compared to the number of students who apply.

Regardless of your test scores and GPA, the lower a college’s acceptance rate, the more difficult it is for you to be admitted. However, there are more than 3800 accredited colleges and universities in the US. About 100 colleges have acceptance rates of 35% or lower.

The good news is that 3700 schools have acceptance rates of 35% or higher. Surely, there are numbers of colleges to which you can apply whose test scores and acceptance rates fit you, AND also offer what you want in a college.

Acceptance rates for colleges can be found on individual college admissions websites, but also in the latest hard copy and online editions of U.S. News & World Report, America’s Best Colleges: How To Find The Right School For You, or on the US Department of Education’s College Navigator website, in The College Handbook or different college guides.