SAT percentile calculator

Three percentiles, and only two of them are published

This is the part almost every other site gets wrong. College Board publishes two percentile tables, and shows a third number on your actual score report.

• SAT User Group. In College Board's words, "based on the actual SAT scores of students that graduated in the past three school years." This is the number most people mean by an SAT percentile.
• Nationally Representative Sample. "Derived from a research study of U.S. students in 11th and 12th grade and are weighted to represent all U.S. students in those grades, regardless of whether they typically take the SAT."
• All Tester Percentile. What your score report actually shows, based on "the actual scores of the past 3 cohorts of students who took the SAT in 12th grade for tests completed anywhere in the world." No lookup table for it exists publicly.

So if the number here differs from the one on your report, neither is wrong. They are answering different questions about different comparison groups. The full explanation is here, and the complete tables are here.

Percentiles are inclusive

A percentile of 75 means 75 percent of the comparison group scored at or below your score, not below it. College Board states this explicitly: "if a student's score is in the 70th percentile, 70% of a comparison group achieved scores at or below that student's score."

Some context for the number

The Class of 2025 mean total score was 1029 across 2,004,965 test takers, with a standard deviation of 235. College Board's readiness benchmarks sit at 480 for Reading and Writing and 530 for Math, each predicting a 75 percent likelihood of a C or higher in a related first-semester college course.

A percentile is a description of where a score sits in a distribution. It is not a verdict, and it says nothing about a particular college's expectations. For that you need the score ranges of admitted students at the specific schools on your list.