Columbia is first with 790.

Incidentally, both are top-100 happiest schools.

beat Vassar (750), Hamilton College (740), NYU (730), and Jewish Theological Seminary of America (730), and others, ending with Five Towns College (480).

174 out of the other 231 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 75th percentile SAT writing score, e.g., Cornell.

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

Barnard is in New York, NY, is private and nonprofit, 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 psychology, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (32nd place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (42nd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (222nd place)
• research spending ($4.3M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($101,477)
• endowment per full-time student ($91,481)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,502)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,502)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($34,719)
• cost of a shared room ($8,240)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,478)
• research spending per student ($1,708)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (100%)
• full-time retention rate (97%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (57%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (38%)
• minorities (28.3%)
• in-state freshmen (25.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (20%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.4%)
• Asians (16.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.6%)
• foreign students (8.5%)
• disabled students (7%)
• Hispanics (6.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (710)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (730)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (760)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (32.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,237)
• first-year applicants (5,440)
• foreign students (217)
• full-time undergrads (2,466)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,200)
• undergrads (2,504)
• yearly for-credit students (2,544)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.36)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (49.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.12)
• elevation (31 meters)

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