outdid Truett-McConnell College (62.1 inches), North Georgia College & State Univ (61.4 inches), Piedmont College (60.3 inches), and Southeastern Bible College (58.9 inches), and others, ending with Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts (37.0 inches).

6 out of the other 425 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., South Georgia College.

1. Weather data comes from NOAA'S 1981-2010 Climate Normals data files at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, using the closest weather station to each college, as determined by distance calculations using the latitude and longitude of the weather station and of the college, as listed in the IPEDS directory (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Brevard College is in Brevard, NC, is private and nonprofit, is in the South Atlantic Conference, is United Methodist, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($44,467)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,900)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,900)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($14,268)
• cost of typical room and board ($8,200)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,749)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (72%)
• in-state freshmen (56.8%)
• full-time retention rate (52%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (44%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (42.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.4%)
• minorities (13%)
• Blacks or African Americans (11.2%)
• disabled students (5%)
• foreign students (4.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1%)
• Hispanics (0.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 0.2%)
• Asians (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -0.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (420)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (36.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (590)
• first-year applicants (1,581)
• foreign students (34)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (688)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (12.6)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (66.0 inches)
• elevation (651 meters)

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