beat out by Bowdoin College (670) and U of Rochester (640).

tied with Colorado College (610).

Incidentally, all 4 have a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.

beat Dickinson College (600), Denison Univ (600), Trinity College (600), and Pitzer College (600), and others, ending with Washington Bible College-Capital Bible Seminary (360).

1,729 out of the other 1,839 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 25th percentile SAT math score, e.g., FIDM/Fashion Inst. of Design & Merchandising-San Francisco.

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. Whether a college requires test scores (SAT or ACT) for undergraduate admission 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).
   

Gettysburg College is in Gettysburg, PA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Centennial Conference, 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, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (50th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (113th place)
• research spending ($700K)
• endowment per full-time student ($85,343)
• average full-time teaching salary ($76,908)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,210)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,210)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($24,803)
• cost of a shared room ($5,660)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,876)
• research spending per student ($247)
• full-time retention rate (91%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (75%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (56%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53.3%)
• in-state freshmen (27.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (12%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.7%)
• minorities (10.1%)
• disabled students (7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.1%)
• Hispanics (3.8%)
• Asians (2%)
• foreign students (1.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (690)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (5)
• average January temperature (29.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,223)
• first-year applicants (5,620)
• foreign students (48)
• full-time undergrads (2,579)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (3)
• undergrads (2,600)
• yearly for-credit students (2,744)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.67)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (43.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.21)
• elevation (152 meters)

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