bested Calumet College of Saint Joseph (1,355), Indiana Univ-Northwest (1,530), Purdue Univ-North Central Campus (1,550), and U of St Francis (1,610).

Incidentally, none of the 5 is open admission.

trailed Hebrew Theological College (1,730), Roosevelt Univ (1,753), Dominican Univ (1,760), and Elmhurst College (1,795), and others, ending with Northwestern (2,310).

76 out of the other 92 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for total 75th percentile SAT score, e.g., Aurora Univ.

1. The total 75th-percentile SAT score is calculated as the sum of the math, reading, and writing 75th-percentile scores, using college SAT data 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.
   

Saint Xavier Univ is in Chicago, IL, is private and nonprofit, is in the Mid-States Football Association, is Roman Catholic, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($70,855)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,110)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,110)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,876)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,918)
• cost of a shared room ($5,620)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,453)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• in-state freshmen (92%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (80%)
• full-time retention rate (69%)
• undergrads among full-time students (64.8%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (63.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (55%)
• minorities (33.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (18.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (17.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (12.9%)
• Hispanics (12.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 8.8%)
• Asians (2.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• foreign students (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (540)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (24.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (921)
• first-year applicants (10,247)
• foreign students (22)
• full-time grad students (241)
• full-time undergrads (2,382)
• grad students (1,541)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,650)
• undergrads (2,843)
• yearly for-credit students (5,493)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (39.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.07)
• elevation (189 meters)

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