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Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $510,184 ahead with aid, $306,816 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer and Information Sciences, General ($109,457); Mathematics ($91,979); Economics ($85,593).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 5% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 29% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Macalester College: 51, 103 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often University of Chicago Laboratory Schools (2.2 per class year, 9 over 4 class years, past four years); The Blake School (1.6 per class year, 8 over 5 class years, Classes 2021-2025); Polytechnic School (1.0 per class year, 5 over 5 class years, Class of 2022-2026). 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/macalester-college.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Macalester College: 7, 12 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often National Cathedral School (1.3 per class year, 4 over 3 class years, 2023-2025); The TASIS School in Dorado (1.0 per class year, 1 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); St Anselm'S Abbey School (0.6 per class year, 3 over 5 class years, 2022-2026). 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/macalester-college.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/macalester-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":13772},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":11982},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":11098},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":20527}],"full_price":82991,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":32149,"npc_url":"https://www.macalester.edu/financialaid/estimate/","tuition_in_state":68104,"tuition_out_of_state":68104},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":63878,"median_6yr_after_entry":46244},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":12,"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. 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