beat Caltech (790), Yale (790), Princeton (790), and UChicago (780), and others, ending with U of Puerto Rico-Arecibo (307).

1,849 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 75th percentile SAT reading score, e.g., Mount Mary College.

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.
   

Harvard is in Cambridge, MA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Ivy Group, research intensive, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, was attended by a U.S. President, its top major is economics, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business/commerce, its top Doctoral major is law, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities, other, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Webometrics world ranking (1st place)
• ARWU world ranking (1st place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (1st place)
• USNews MBA ranking (1st place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (2nd place)
• USNews law school ranking (2nd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (8th place)
• research spending ($624.2M)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,208,456)
• average full-time teaching salary ($151,262)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($41,555)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($40,866)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($40,866)
• research spending per student ($18,188)
• cost of a shared room ($8,366)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,118)
• full-time retention rate (97%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (77%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (47.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 31.7%)
• minorities (24.5%)
• foreign students (20.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (18%)
• in-state freshmen (14.5%)
• Asians (12.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (11%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (8%)
• Hispanics (6.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -24.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (710)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (700)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (710)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (790)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (800)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (800)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (31)
• average January temperature (26.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (12,993)
• first-year applicants (34,216)
• foreign students (6,997)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (164)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (341)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,390)
• yearly for-credit students (34,322)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.23)
• students per faculty member (7)
• annual rainfall (49.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.51)
• elevation (3 meters)

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