Bowdoin College is first with 670.

Incidentally, both are top-100 happiest schools.

beat Gettysburg College (600), Denison Univ (600), U of Rochester (600), and Sewanee-U of the South (590), and others, ending with Calumet College of Saint Joseph (340).

1,729 out of the other 1,839 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 25th percentile SAT reading score, e.g., FIDM/Fashion Inst. of Design & Merchandising-San Francisco.

1. College SAT data is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   
2. Whether a college requires test scores (SAT or ACT) for undergraduate admission is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Colorado College is in Colorado Springs, CO, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, a top-100 happiest school, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has its top Masters major in education, offers on-campus housing, its top major is economics, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (31st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (292nd place)
• research spending ($1.1M)
• endowment per full-time student ($223,354)
• average full-time teaching salary ($90,815)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($41,742)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($41,742)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($28,888)
• cost of a shared room ($5,496)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,768)
• research spending per student ($460)
• undergrads among full-time students (99.1%)
• full-time retention rate (95%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (66.7%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (57%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (57%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (28%)
• in-state freshmen (16.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.9%)
• minorities (11.9%)
• disabled students (11%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (10%)
• Hispanics (6.9%)
• foreign students (6.3%)
• Asians (3.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.1%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (710)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (720)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (720)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• average January temperature (30.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,541)
• first-year applicants (5,606)
• foreign students (155)
• full-time grad students (18)
• full-time undergrads (1,983)
• grad students (18)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (12)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,150)
• undergrads (2,004)
• yearly for-credit students (2,476)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.98)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (16.5 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.08)
• elevation (1,847 meters)

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