trailed Trinity Lutheran College (370), Eastern Oregon Univ (400), Northwest Christian Univ (410), and Eastern Washington Univ (410), and others, ending with Reed College (650).

125 out of the other 172 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 25th percentile SAT writing score, e.g., Cal State-Sacramento.

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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Western Oregon Univ is in Monmouth, OR, is public, degree-granting, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the quarter system, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (939th place)
• research spending ($8.1M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($52,411)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,114)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,529)
• cost of a shared room ($7,220)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,398)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,666)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,267)
• research spending per student ($1,018)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (147.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (89%)
• undergrads among full-time students (87.1%)
• in-state freshmen (79.1%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (73%)
• full-time retention rate (70%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (61.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (48%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (20%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (18.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (16%)
• minorities (15.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.1%)
• Hispanics (9.4%)
• foreign students (4.1%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.5%)
• Asians (2.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (410)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (410)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (310)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• average January temperature (40.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,621)
• first-year applicants (2,697)
• foreign students (328)
• full-time grad students (237)
• full-time undergrads (4,649)
• grad students (799)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,580)
• undergrads (5,385)
• yearly for-credit students (7,975)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (19)
• annual rainfall (47.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (62 meters)

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