Hampshire College Description:
Admissions Data (2007):
- Percent of Applicants Admitted: 56.5%
- Test Scores -- 25th / 75th Percentile
- SAT Critical Reading: 610 / 700
- SAT Math: 540 / 660
- SAT Writing: 600 / 690
- ACT Composite: 26 / 29
- ACT English: - / -
- ACT Math: - / -
Enrollment (2007):
- Total Enrollment: 1,431
- Gender Breakdown: 42.6% Male / 57.4% Female
- 100% Full-time
Costs (2007 - 08):
- Tuition and Fees: $36,545
- Books: $500
- Room and Board: $9,545
- Other Expenses: $600
- Total Cost: $47,190
Hampshire College Financial Aid (2006 - 07):
- Percentage of Students Receiving Aid: 72%
- Percentage of Students Receiving Types of Aid
- Federal Grants: 12%
- State / Local Grants: 5%
- Institutional Grants: 72%
- Loans: 54%
- Average Amount of Aid
- Federal Grants: $4,005
- State / Local Grants: $1,233
- Institutional Grants: $18,880
- Loans: $2,555
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Hampshire College Mission Statement:
As a liberal arts college, Hampshire helps students develop confidence in their intellect, creativity, and values. It encourages their desire to be lifelong learners and their capacity to advance the cause of social justice and the well-being of others. The college fosters these attitudes through: a multidisciplinary, multicultural curriculum; self-initiated, individual programs of study negotiated with faculty mentors; students' active participation in original research; and the diverse communities, on campus and off, in which learning takes place. Within the college's residential community, students encounter and learn to respect difference and appreciate diversity, thereby enhancing their capacity to live together well.
Through commitment to testing and evaluating new ideas and new approaches to learning, national efforts to promote inquiry-based learning and teaching, and constructive civic and social engagement, Hampshire's actions serve as models for those of its students."
