after Whitman College (720, $71,616), closest are Eureka College (710, $51,419), New College of Florida (690, $67,786), Rhodes College (680, $68,077), and St Mary's College of Maryland (670, $70,830), ending with U of Puerto Rico-Arecibo (282, $53,585).

1,719 out of the other 2,180 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 75th percentile SAT writing score, e.g., Truman State Univ.

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.
   

Whitman College is in Walla Walla, WA, 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 (41st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (95th place)
• research spending ($400K)
• endowment per full-time student ($262,930)
• average full-time teaching salary ($71,616)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($42,105)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($42,105)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,457)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,660)
• cost of a shared room ($4,880)
• research spending per student ($231)
• full-time retention rate (94%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (85%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (57.2%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (44%)
• in-state freshmen (31.8%)
• minorities (16%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (10%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9.8%)
• disabled students (8%)
• Asians (7.6%)
• Hispanics (6.1%)
• foreign students (2.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (700)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (730)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (720)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (35.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (840)
• first-year applicants (2,854)
• foreign students (39)
• full-time undergrads (1,509)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (5)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,150)
• undergrads (1,539)
• yearly for-credit students (1,676)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.39)
• students per faculty member (9)
• annual rainfall (20.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.08)
• elevation (300 meters)

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