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Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $852,976 ahead with aid, $600,100 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Business Administration, Management and Operations ($121,699); Accounting and Related Services ($118,946); Economics ($115,837).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 1% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 51% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Washington & Lee University: 49, 180 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often The Westminster Schools (3.8 per class year, 19 over 5 class years, Classes 2021-2025); Westminster (3.8 per class year, 19 over 5 class years, Classes 2021-2025); Episcopal High School (3.6 per class year, 18 over 5 class years, Classes of 2022 through 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/washington-and-lee-university.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Washington & Lee University: 7, 14 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often National Cathedral School (2.0 per class year, 6 over 3 class years, 2023-2025); Middlesex School (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, Class of 2026, counted column \"accepted\"); 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/washington-and-lee-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/washington-and-lee-university.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":"$30\u201348K","net_price":75},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":4497},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":8162}],"full_price":87000,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":23781,"npc_url":"https://wlu.studentaidcalculator.com/survey.aspx","tuition_in_state":68045,"tuition_out_of_state":68045},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":94810,"median_6yr_after_entry":76516},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":14,"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":2.0,"school":"National Cathedral School","span":3,"students":6,"total":6,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/national-cathedral-school","verified":true,"years":"2023-2025"},{"counted_column":"accepted","per_year":2.0,"school":"Middlesex School","span":1,"students":2,"total":2,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/middlesex-school","verified":true,"years":"Class of 2026"},{"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":null,"per_year":1.0,"school":"St Andrews School Of Boca Raton Inc","span":1,"students":1,"total":1,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/st-andrews-school-of-boca-raton-inc","verified":true,"years":"Class of 2026"},{"counted_column":null,"per_year":1.0,"school":"Staten Island Academy","span":1,"students":1,"total":1,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/staten-island-academy","verified":true,"years":"College Acceptances 2026"},{"counted_column":null,"per_year":0.4,"school":"The Altamont School","span":5,"students":2,"total":2,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/the-altamont-school","verified":true,"years":"Classes of 2021-2025"},{"counted_column":null,"per_year":0.2,"school":"St Anselm'S Abbey School","span":5,"students":1,"total":1,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/st-anselms-abbey-school","verified":true,"years":"2022-2026"}],"schools_publishing":7,"schools_ranked":7,"unranked":[]},"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered matriculation list. Schools are ranked by graduates per class year \u2014 the published total divided by the class years that school's list covers \u2014 because a five-year list and a one-year list are not the same window; `total`, `span` and the school's verbatim `years` ride with every row. A school whose class years cannot be read is not ranked: it is listed under `unranked` with its total. 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