<p>ColgateDad-
You asked for it! 
I wrote a very long post with facts and figures, links and references, then spent so long posting it that it disappeared into cyberspace when my session timed out, so I’ll just give you the essentials here. The information is primarily from the 4 schools’ Common Data Set for 2011 and addresses only the objective data.</p>
<p>Acceptance rate (low to high):
Wesleyan
Bates
Hamilton
Colgate</p>
<p>Diversity (percentage white non-Hispanic, low to high):
Wesleyan
Hamilton
Colgate
Bates</p>
<p>Percentage of students studying abroad
Bates
Colgate
Hamilton/Wesleyan*
- I don’t have numbers for the last two but they were not listed among schools with high numbers for students studying abroad. </p>
<p>Bates is 45 minutes from Portland and its airport.</p>