after Skidmore College (45th place, 560), closest are Furman Univ (52nd place, 560), DePauw Univ (54th place, 550), Wabash College (57th place, 530), and Beloit College (59th place, 560), ending with Eastern Mennonite Univ (180th place, 450).

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. The 2014 US News National Liberal Arts College Rankings is at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges.
   

Skidmore College is in Saratoga Springs, NY, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, a top-100 happiest school, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (45th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (278th place)
• research spending ($1.9M)
• endowment per full-time student ($99,495)
• average full-time teaching salary ($77,289)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,020)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,020)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($32,696)
• cost of a shared room ($6,944)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,584)
• research spending per student ($649)
• undergrads among full-time students (98.9%)
• full-time retention rate (92%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (60.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (51%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (39%)
• in-state freshmen (29.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 15.2%)
• minorities (14.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (14%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.3%)
• disabled students (8%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (6.9%)
• Hispanics (6.7%)
• Asians (5.1%)
• foreign students (3.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.8%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (680)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (21.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,198)
• first-year applicants (5,702)
• foreign students (112)
• full-time grad students (0)
• full-time undergrads (2,621)
• grad students (29)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,020)
• undergrads (2,660)
• yearly for-credit students (2,942)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.65)
• students per faculty member (9)
• annual rainfall (45.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.14)
• elevation (110 meters)

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