trailed Mid-Continent Univ (440), Hiwassee College (445), West Liberty Univ (450), and Northwood Univ-Texas (460), and others, ending with Hamilton College (740).

126 out of the other 182 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 75th percentile SAT writing score, e.g., Central State Univ.

1. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional 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.
   

Lakeland College is in Plymouth, WI, is private and nonprofit, is in the Northern Athletics Conference, is of the United Church of Christ, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business/commerce, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (972nd place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($58,001)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,242)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,242)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($13,444)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,414)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,883)
• cost of a shared room ($3,720)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (96%)
• full-time retention rate (81%)
• undergrads among full-time students (79.1%)
• in-state freshmen (78.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (53.5%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (44.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (43%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12%)
• minorities (11.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 8.4%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (5.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.3%)
• Hispanics (2.6%)
• foreign students (2.3%)
• Asians (2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -7.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (420)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (430)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• average January temperature (19.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (667)
• first-year applicants (822)
• foreign students (109)
• full-time grad students (111)
• full-time undergrads (995)
• grad students (785)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,310)
• undergrads (2,964)
• yearly for-credit students (4,827)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.93)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (31.0 inches)
• elevation (239 meters)

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