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Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $776,368 ahead with aid, $581,568 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Chemical Engineering ($115,726); Economics ($112,864); Engineering, General ($104,222).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 3% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 59% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Lafayette College: 87, 232 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Western Reserve Academy (3.0 per class year, 3 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); Brunswick School (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, Class of 2026 Matriculation; Composite Matriculation List of 2022-2026, counted column \"Class of 2026 Matriculation\"); Friends School of Baltimore (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, Class of 2026). 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/lafayette-college.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Lafayette College: 9, 28 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Oratory Preparatory School (4.0 per class year, 4 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); Staten Island Academy (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, College Acceptances 2026); The Chapin School (1.0 per class year, 5 over 5 class years, 2022-2026, counted column \"Admitted\"). 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/lafayette-college.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/lafayette-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":12716},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":7445},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":10881},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":12581}],"full_price":83133,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":34433,"npc_url":"https://npc.collegeboard.org/app/lafayette","tuition_in_state":65398,"tuition_out_of_state":65398},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":91410,"median_6yr_after_entry":80614},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":28,"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. 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