Wabash College Description:
Admissions Data (2011):
- Percent of Applicants Admitted: 63%
- What Are Your Chances? (from Cappex.com)
- Test Scores -- 25th / 75th Percentile
- SAT Critical Reading: 508 / 610
- SAT Math: 540 / 650
- SAT Writing: 490 / 590
- ACT Composite: 22 / 27
- ACT English: 21 / 27
- ACT Math: 23 / 28
Enrollment (2010):
- Total Enrollment: 872 (all undergraduate)
- Gender Breakdown: 100% Male / 0% Female
- 100% Full-time
Costs (2011 - 12):
- Tuition and Fees: $32,450
- Books: $1,000 (why so much?)
- Room and Board: $8,100
- Other Expenses: $1,500
- Total Cost: $43,050
Wabash College Financial Aid (2009 - 10):
- Percentage of New Students Receiving Aid: 96%
- Wabash College Scholarships (Cappex.com)
- Percentage of New Students Receiving Types of Aid
- Grants: 94%
- Loans: 76%
- Average Amount of Aid
- Grants: $18,007
- Loans: $6,556
Most Popular Majors:
Graduation and Retention Rates:
- First Year Student Retention (full-time students): 89%
- 4-Year Graduation Rate: 71%
- 6-Year Graduation Rate: 77%
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Wabash College Mission Statement:
"Founded in 1832, Wabash College is an independent, liberal arts college for men with an enrollment of 850 students. Its mission is excellence in teaching and learning within a community built on close and caring relationships among students, faculty, and staff.
Wabash offers qualified young men a superior education, fostering, in particular, independent intellectual inquiry, critical thought, and clear written and oral expression. The College educates its students broadly in the traditional curriculum of the liberal arts, while also requiring them to pursue concentrated study in one or more disciplines. Wabash emphasizes our manifold, but shared cultural heritage. Our students come from diverse economic, social, and cultural backgrounds; the College helps these students engage these differences and live humanely with them. Wabash also challenges its students to appreciate the changing nature of the global society and prepares them for the responsibilities of leadership and service in it.
The College carries out its mission in a residential setting in which students take personal and group responsibility for their actions. Wabash provides for its students an unusually informal, egalitarian, and participatory environment which encourages young men to adopt a life of intellectual and creative growth, self-awareness, and physical activity. The College seeks to cultivate qualities of character and leadership in students by developing not only their analytical skills, but also sensitivity to values, and judgment and compassion required of citizens living in a difficult and uncertain world. We expect a Wabash education to bring joy in the life of the mind, to reveal the pleasures in the details of common experience, and to affirm the necessity for and rewards in helping others."
