after Haverford (670, $87,414), closest are Macalester College (630, $85,799), Oberlin (630, $85,758), Kenyon College (630, $79,022), and Whitman College (620, $71,616), ending with Saint Pauls College (200, $38,187).

1,983 out of the other 2,604 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 25th percentile SAT writing score, e.g., Grinnell College.

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. 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.
   

Haverford is in Haverford, PA, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, a top-100 happiest school, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (9th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (17th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (18th place)
• research spending ($2.6M)
• endowment per full-time student ($309,215)
• average full-time teaching salary ($87,414)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,702)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,702)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($37,089)
• cost of a shared room ($7,570)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,326)
• research spending per student ($2,019)
• full-time retention rate (97%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (51%)
• minorities (21.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (18%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (14%)
• in-state freshmen (12.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.8%)
• Hispanics (8.1%)
• Asians (6.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.4%)
• disabled students (6%)
• foreign students (4.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 2.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -2.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (650)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (760)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (760)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (760)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (1,205)
• first-year applicants (3,626)
• foreign students (52)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (20)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,280)
• yearly for-credit students (1,264)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.96)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (48.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (105 meters)

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