Fun Fact: Upon matriculation to Bowdoin you meet the College President and sign an ancient matriculation book, as Longfellow, Hawthorne and every other Bowdoin student has done over the past two centuries plus.
Here’s the video: https://vimeo.com/73863843
That is the average for admitted students to Hamilton, not enrolled students.
Another slight check, Money recently ranked the 50 private colleges with the highest four-year graduation rates:
Rank, NESCAC college
I’m not sure what year Money is using for their numbers.
Since the common data sets for 2014-2015 are available, we can look at the most recent info (for the fall 2008 cohort):
College: 4-year grad rate/6-year grad rate:
Middlebury: 89%/94%
Williams: 88%/95%
Tufts: 88%/92%
Amherst: 87%/94%
Wesleyan: 87%/93%
Hamilton: 86%/91%
Bowdoin: 86%/93%
Colby: 85%/90%
Bates: 83%/88%
Trinity: 79%/84%
Conn College:78%/83%
Bachelor’s Institutions Receiving Fulbright Awards for 2014-2015
Rank, NESCAC college, Grants, Applications
I’m trying to avoid the emphasis on rank. The main point is that all NESCAC colleges within this category are represented.
Doctoral/Research Institutions Receiving Fulbright Awards for 2014-2015
Ranks were given for comparison to non-NESCAC institutions. These numbers vary significantly by year. Colby and Trinity may simply have had off years.
An important detail to understand about Fullbrights is the difference between the grants awarded for substantive research vs. the grants awarded for language instruction (supporting English teachers in other countries). The former are much more competitive and prestigious, at least from the academic perspective (coming from a family of professors).
However, on campus tours, we have noticed at most schools that the bullet point on Fullbright awards is the number of overall awards, and then the breakdown between substantive research and language assistance grants is in fine print somewhere.
The numbers posted on NESCACS are impressive indeed, not meaning to suggest that they aren’t. Rather a suggestion to folks using this data point in college searches, that there is more to that number, at any institution. Especially, if someone is interested in Ph.D. level work, history of Fulbright research grants would be the more meaningful inquiry.
That is good context, and it shows how colleges may use Fulbrights and other awards to hype their institutions. The distinction between the two types of awards might be less significant if there were commonly a correlation between them, though I have no reason to assume that is the case.
Good points Midwestmom and Merc. How embarrassing to receive one of those lesser Fulbrights /
“How embarrassing to receive one of those lesser Fullbrights”
When bad things happen to good people …
When my husband had a Fullbright, as a grad student, they called the language ones “Half brights”. . . . academic wit … . .
Half a bright is better than no bright at all. 
And I was a no-bright . . .
I’ve found the NESCAC “fun facts” to be substantive as much as fun. I’ll try my best to stay on the same level.
America’s two best known academic sex researchers were NESCAC grads: Kinsey (Bowdoin) and William Masters (Hamilton). Kinsey’s survey methods were eventually superseded by more sophisticated statistical techniques, an evolution that has still not reached the Princeton Review.