after Wesleyan Univ (660, 21%), closest are Vassar (650, 23%), Emory (640, 21%), NYU (640, 23%), and Brandeis (620, 23%), ending with Saint Pauls College (200, 79%).

1,748 out of the other 2,380 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 25th percentile SAT writing score, e.g., Grinnell College.

1. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. 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.
   

Wesleyan Univ is in Middletown, CT, is private and nonprofit, is in the New England Small College Ath Conf, a top-100 happiest school, grants doctorates, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, its top Doctoral major is music, other, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (17th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (27th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (90th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (759th place)
• research spending ($9.8M)
• endowment per full-time student ($187,807)
• average full-time teaching salary ($94,753)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($45,628)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($45,628)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($37,511)
• cost of typical room and board ($12,574)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,956)
• research spending per student ($2,787)
• full-time retention rate (95%)
• undergrads among full-time students (90.1%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (58%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (49.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (44%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (26.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 23.7%)
• minorities (22.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (21%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.7%)
• foreign students (8.9%)
• Hispanics (8.8%)
• Asians (7.5%)
• in-state freshmen (6.8%)
• disabled students (6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -19.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (660)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (740)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (740)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (750)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (28.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,920)
• first-year applicants (9,658)
• foreign students (312)
• full-time grad students (203)
• full-time undergrads (2,932)
• grad students (322)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (14)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,230)
• undergrads (2,940)
• yearly for-credit students (3,507)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (9.6)
• students per faculty member (9)
• annual rainfall (51.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.23)
• elevation (30 meters)

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