beat out by William and Mary (720) and Skidmore College (680).

tied with Elon Univ (670) and SUNY at Binghamton (670).

Incidentally, all 5 have a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.

beat UC Santa Barbara (660), U of California-Davis (660), Westmont College (650), and College of Saint Benedict (640), and others, ending with Livingstone College (390).

77 out of the other 131 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 75th percentile SAT writing score, e.g., Denison Univ.

1. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) 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.
   

St Mary's College of Maryland is in St. Mary's City, MD, is public, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has its top Masters major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (89th place)
• research spending ($300K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($70,830)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($27,573)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,773)
• endowment per full-time student ($13,205)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,133)
• cost of a shared room ($6,385)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,458)
• research spending per student ($148)
• full-time retention rate (87%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (86.6%)
• in-state freshmen (85%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (79%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (60.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (41%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (19%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.7%)
• minorities (13.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.4%)
• foreign students (6.3%)
• Hispanics (3.6%)
• Asians (2.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (680)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (670)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (36.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,572)
• first-year applicants (2,398)
• foreign students (132)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,000)
• yearly for-credit students (2,091)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.59)
• students per faculty member (10)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.07)
• elevation (6 meters)

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