beat out by U of Miami (590), New College of Florida (590), and U of Florida (570).

Incidentally, all 4 offer a meal plan.

beat Florida International Univ (520), Flagler College-St Augustine (520), Stetson Univ (510), and U of South Florida (510), and others, ending with Edward Waters College (330).

152 out of the other 177 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 25th percentile SAT writing score, e.g., Florida State Univ.

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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Rollins College is in Winter Park, FL, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, a top-100 party school, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, its top major is economics, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (716th place)
• endowment per full-time student ($95,550)
• average full-time teaching salary ($74,706)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($39,900)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($39,900)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($25,707)
• cost of a shared room ($7,340)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,865)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• full-time retention rate (84%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (83%)
• undergrads among full-time students (82.2%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.1%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (46%)
• in-state freshmen (45.8%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (25.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 22.8%)
• minorities (21.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (21%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (18.4%)
• Hispanics (13.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.2%)
• disabled students (8%)
• foreign students (5.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.4%)
• Asians (2.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -18.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (640)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (60.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,264)
• first-year applicants (4,542)
• foreign students (204)
• full-time grad students (299)
• full-time undergrads (2,416)
• grad students (575)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (3)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,920)
• undergrads (2,662)
• yearly for-credit students (3,592)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.6)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (53.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.11)
• elevation (20 meters)

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