after Macalester College (740, 60%), closest are USC (720, 60%), Case Western Reserve Univ (720, 63%), Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (700, 63%), and Gustavus Adolphus College (700, 70%), ending with Paul Quinn College (385, 89%).

957 out of the other 1,783 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 75th percentile SAT reading score, e.g., Mount Mary College.

1. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported 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.
   

Macalester College is in Saint Paul, MN, is private and nonprofit, is of the Presbyterian Church - USA, degree-granting, a top-100 happiest school, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is biology/biological sciences, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (24th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (38th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (101st place)
• research spending ($900K)
• endowment per full-time student ($313,789)
• average full-time teaching salary ($85,799)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,693)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,693)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($29,760)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,817)
• cost of a shared room ($5,214)
• research spending per student ($417)
• full-time retention rate (94%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (80%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (60%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (18%)
• in-state freshmen (15.2%)
• minorities (14.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 12.9%)
• foreign students (10.9%)
• disabled students (7%)
• Hispanics (5.8%)
• Asians (5.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -11.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (640)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (730)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (740)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (720)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (4)
• average January temperature (14.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,299)
• first-year applicants (6,030)
• foreign students (244)
• full-time undergrads (2,035)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (9)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,190)
• undergrads (2,070)
• yearly for-credit students (2,236)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.34)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (31.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.39)
• elevation (284 meters)

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