closest are Kaplan Univ-Maine Campus (0.3%), Maine Maritime Academy (0.3%), U of Maine at Machias (0.4%), and U of Maine at Presque Isle (0.4%), ending with Bowdoin College (6.6%).

1 college was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for Asians.

1. Northeastern-ness is calculated as the sum of latitude and longitude, both from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The percentage of ethnic groups or other types of students among all full-time students is calculated from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Sterling College is in Craftsbury Common, VT, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, its top major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($33,489)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,310)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,310)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($13,871)
• endowment per full-time student ($7,226)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,006)
• cost of a shared room ($3,794)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (60%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.2%)
• full-time retention rate (55%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (40%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (24.1%)
• disabled students (15%)
• in-state freshmen (6.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 3.7%)
• minorities (2.9%)
• Hispanics (2.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (0.7%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• Asians (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -3.6%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (14.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (91)
• first-year applicants (53)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (137)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (12.17)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (46.1 inches)
• elevation (379 meters)

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