closest are Newbury College-Brookline ($12,520, 1,450), Mount Ida College ($12,500, 1,450), Lasell College ($12,300, 1,600), and College of Saint Elizabeth ($12,254, 1,410), ending with Lubbock Christian Univ ($5,400, 1,610).

198 out of the other 254 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., Curry College.

1. The costs of room and board are from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The total 75th-percentile SAT score is calculated as the sum of the math, reading, and writing 75th-percentile scores, using college SAT data 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.
   

Wheelock College is in Boston, MA, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is human development and family studies, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is social work, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($66,230)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($30,955)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($30,955)
• endowment per full-time student ($30,112)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($16,229)
• cost of typical room and board ($12,800)
• average undergrad student loan ($10,573)
• research spending per student ($27)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (92.1%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (87%)
• full-time retention rate (69%)
• in-state freshmen (55.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (31%)
• minorities (20.6%)
• disabled students (16%)
• Blacks or African Americans (10.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.9%)
• Hispanics (7.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 2%)
• Asians (2%)
• foreign students (0.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (550)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (26.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (678)
• first-year applicants (1,566)
• foreign students (7)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,640)
• yearly for-credit students (1,647)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.67)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (49.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (9 meters)

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