Location: Easton, Pennsylvania,

Type: private coeducational

Setting: suburban

Mascot: leopard

Cost: $44,188 /year

Total enrollment: 2,310

Percent accepted: 37

Average SAT: Verbal: 580-670, Math: 600-700, Writing: 630-700

Average ACT: 25-30

Average HS GPA: 3.7

Athletics division: 23 Division 1 sports, 18 club sports, more than 30 intramural sports.

Pros:

-Small classes of 10 to 19 students

-Nationally recognized engineering program

-Great lab facilities

-Wide range of available internships and research opportunities with professors.

Cons:

-Secluded on top of a hill

-Need a car to go downtown

-Lots of drinking

-Not a very diverse student body (most of student body is middle and upper class white students).

Interesting facts:

-Lafayette College signed a deal with MTV to designate the campus as an MTV campus. -Affiliated with the Presbyterian Church

-In 2008, U.S. News and World Report ranked Lafayette College 34th out of all liberal colleges in the U.S.