"Even the SAT will tell you that Bush's 1200+ SAT in 1964 would be 1350 today. Is 1350 enough for Yale today?"
Not according to the SAT folks. Here's the breakdown of median SAT scores at various universities:
SAT > 1500
California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvey Mudd College
SAT > 1450
Yale University, Stanford University, Pomona College, Swarthmore College, Dartmouth College, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University
SAT > 1400
Middlebury College, Rice University, Williams College, Amherst College, Duke University, Brown University, Claremont McKenna College, Johns Hopkins University, University of Chicago, Emory University,
SAT > 1350
University of Chicago, Emory University, Northwestern University, Carleton College, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Washington University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, Wesleyan University, Bowdoin College, Haverford College, Wellesley College, University of Notre Dame, Vassar College, Washington and Lee University, Webb Institute, Case Western Reserve University, St. John's College (MD), Georgia Institute of Technology, Macalester College, New York University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Bates College, Davidson College, Grinnell College,
SAT > 1300
Reed College, Tufts University, Barnard College, Brandeis University, Colby College, Colgate University, College of William and Mary, University of California - Berkeley, University of Rochester, Wheaton College (IL), Oberlin College, St. John's College (NM), University of Richmond, Vanderbilt University, Whitman College, Boston College, University of Southern California, University of Virginia, Bryn Mawr College, Illinois Institute of Technology, New College of Florida, Wake Forest University, US Naval Academy, Kalamazoo College, Kenyon College, Stevens Institute of Technology, University of California - Los Angeles, Manhattanville College, Rhodes College (TN), Scripps College, Trinity University, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor,
SAT > 1250
Bucknell University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Boston University, Lehigh University, Trinity College (CT), US Air Force Academy, US Merchant Marine Academy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, College of the Atlantic, Grove City College, Mount Holyoke College, St. Olaf College, Smith College, Franklin & Marshall College, Thomas Aquinas College, Yeshiva University, Furman University, Hendrix College, Illinois Wesleyan University, Lawrence University, Simon's Rock College of Bard, US Military Academy, College of New Jersey, Hamilton College (NY), Hampshire College, Lafayette College, Pepperdine University, University of Maryland - College Park, US Coast Guard Academy, Beloit College, Colorado College, Lewis & Clark College, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, University of Missouri - Rolla, University of Puget Sound, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Villanova University, Colorado School of Mines, College of the Holy Cross, George Washington University, New School University, Southwestern University, Tulane University, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Bard College, Kettering University, Gustavus Adolphus College, Knox College, Pitzer College, Polytechnic University, Skidmore College, State Univ. of New York - College at Geneseo, Truman State University, University of Dallas, University of the South