beat U of Iowa (1,930), Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary (1,900), Coe College (1,870), and Luther College (1,820), and others, ending with Ashford Univ (1,530).

39 out of the other 48 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for total 75th percentile SAT score, e.g., Grinnell College.

1. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. 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.
   

Cornell College is in Mount Vernon, IA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Midwest Conference, is United Methodist, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is economics and kinesiology and exercise science, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (97th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (475th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($64,462)
• endowment per full-time student ($47,056)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,705)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,705)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($23,549)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,425)
• cost of a shared room ($3,700)
• research spending per student ($32)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• full-time retention rate (84%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (71%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (34%)
• minorities (18.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17.3%)
• in-state freshmen (14.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.2%)
• disabled students (9%)
• Hispanics (7.9%)
• foreign students (5.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.2%)
• Asians (4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (690)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (690)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (660)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (21.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,119)
• first-year applicants (2,720)
• foreign students (68)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (4)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,040)
• yearly for-credit students (1,209)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.93)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (37.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (263 meters)

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