unlike U of Washington (520, 24,540), James Madison Univ (520, 22,349), Syracuse (520, 25,790), and Rochester Inst. of Technology (520, 16,353), and 62 others, ending with Yale (710, 27,283).

828 otherwise matching colleges were ruled out due to 8 missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 25th percentile SAT writing score alone and 820 for both it and first-year applicants together.

1. The number of total first-year applicants 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).
   
2. Information on types of degree granted is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
3. 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.
   

State U of New York at New Paltz is in New Paltz, NY, is public, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (582nd place)
• research spending ($200K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($68,878)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,008)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,758)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,711)
• cost of a shared room ($6,554)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,580)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,813)
• research spending per student ($27)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (136.9%)
• in-state freshmen (93.4%)
• full-time retention rate (87%)
• undergrads among full-time students (85.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (75%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (62.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (61%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (40.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (29%)
• minorities (18.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 13.1%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (10.1%)
• Hispanics (10.1%)
• foreign students (5.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.5%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Asians (3.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -11.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (520)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (610)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (25.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,999)
• first-year applicants (14,161)
• foreign students (534)
• full-time grad students (498)
• full-time undergrads (6,091)
• grad students (1,082)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,830)
• undergrads (6,573)
• yearly for-credit students (9,227)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.08)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (51.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.08)
• elevation (91 meters)

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