beat Bates College (40th place) and Trinity College (43rd place).

1. The Wall St. Journal published a top-50 feeder ranking by analyzing the top 15 graduate schools to see where their incoming graduate students got their undergraduate degrees, while taking into account the size of the undergraduate institution. (ref: http://www.inpathways.net/top50feeder.pdf)
   
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).
   

Bowdoin College is in Brunswick, ME, is private and nonprofit, is in the New England Small College Ath Conf, degree-granting, a top-100 happiest school, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, was attended by a U.S. President, its top major is political science and government, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (4th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (19th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (112th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,347th place)
• research spending ($2.0M)
• endowment per full-time student ($504,678)
• average full-time teaching salary ($92,759)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,118)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,118)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($32,258)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,685)
• cost of a shared room ($5,620)
• research spending per student ($1,069)
• full-time retention rate (97%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (50.8%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (48%)
• minorities (23.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (19%)
• Hispanics (12.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (12%)
• in-state freshmen (10.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.2%)
• Asians (6.6%)
• disabled students (6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.7%)
• foreign students (4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (670)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (670)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (760)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (760)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (760)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (20.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,742)
• first-year applicants (6,716)
• foreign students (77)
• full-time undergrads (1,831)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (22)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,280)
• undergrads (1,839)
• yearly for-credit students (1,911)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.01)
• students per faculty member (9)
• annual rainfall (51.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.06)
• elevation (21 meters)

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