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Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $744,484 ahead with aid, $496,100 ahead at full price.","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 1% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 30% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Davidson College: 82, 207 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Providence Day School (3.0 per class year, 3 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); Durham Academy (2.8 per class year, 14 over 5 class years, 2021\u20132025); Collegiate School (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, Class of 2026 College Enrollments / 2023-26 4-Year College Enrollments, counted column \"Class of 2026 College Enrollments\"). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/davidson-college.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Davidson College: 6, 26 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often National Cathedral School (3.0 per class year, 9 over 3 class years, 2023-2025); The Altamont School (1.2 per class year, 6 over 5 class years, Classes of 2021-2025); Canterbury School-Fort Myers (1.0 per class year, 1 over 1 class year, Class of 2026). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/davidson-college.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/davidson-college.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Private nonprofit","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":9497},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":5354},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":6759},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":18616}],"full_price":79475,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":17379,"npc_url":"https://davidson.studentaidcalculator.com/survey.aspx","tuition_in_state":64410,"tuition_out_of_state":64410},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":81400,"median_6yr_after_entry":62866},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":26,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. Admits are counted at each college a student was admitted to, so this counts admissions rather than students, the same way the UC Reach Score counts a student admitted to three UC campuses three times. These rows are never added to, or ranked against, the enrollment rows above: an acceptances list runs about three times an enrollment list.","ranked_by":"admissions per class year (published total \u00f7 class years covered)","schools":[{"counted_column":null,"per_year":3.0,"school":"National Cathedral School","span":3,"students":9,"total":9,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/national-cathedral-school","verified":true,"years":"2023-2025"},{"counted_column":null,"per_year":1.2,"school":"The Altamont School","span":5,"students":6,"total":6,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/the-altamont-school","verified":true,"years":"Classes of 2021-2025"},{"counted_column":null,"per_year":1.0,"school":"Canterbury School-Fort Myers","span":1,"students":1,"total":1,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/canterbury-school-fort-myers","verified":true,"years":"Class of 2026"},{"counted_column":"Acceptances 2021\u20132026","per_year":0.8,"school":"Key School","span":6,"students":5,"total":5,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/key-school","verified":true,"years":"2021 - 2026"},{"counted_column":"Admitted","per_year":0.6,"school":"The Chapin School","span":5,"students":3,"total":3,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/the-chapin-school","verified":true,"years":"2022-2026"},{"counted_column":null,"per_year":0.4,"school":"St Anselm'S Abbey School","span":5,"students":2,"total":2,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/st-anselms-abbey-school","verified":true,"years":"2022-2026"}],"schools_publishing":6,"schools_ranked":6,"unranked":[]},"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered matriculation list. 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