six-inch Meade starfinder, and the only Coronado Solarmax II 60 in the state. , Bates has a faculty of 190 and a student body of 1,780 creating a 10:1 student-faculty ratio and the average class size is about fifteen students. All tenured faculty possess the highest degree in their field. Full-time professors at the college received average total compensation of $123,066, with salaries and benefits varying field to field and position to position, putting faculty pay in the top 17% of all public and private universities. Bates College's faculty includes scholars such as political scientists Douglas Hodgkin, Stephen Engel, anthropologist Loring Danforth, historian Margaret Creighton, pianist and composer Thomas Snow, and author Steven Dillon. Past faculty members of the college include: philosophers David A. Klob and Louise Antony, historian Steve Hochstadt, ornithologist Jonathan Stanton, poet Fred D'Aguiar, English professor and first president of Reed College William Trufant Foster, U.S. Senator Porter Dale, economist Leonard Burman, visual artist William "Pope.L" Pope, musician Jody Diamond, and playwright Carolyn Gage. Mount David Summit The college holds the annual Mount David Summit which serves as a platform for students of all years to present undergraduate research, creative art, performance, and various other academic projects and is named after the campus' Mount David. Presentations at the summit include various discipline-centered projects, themed panel discussions, films Q & A's, as well as other activities in the Lewiston area. Started in 2002, the summit is held in Pettengill Hall, and on April 1, 2016, held its 15th summit. Admissions Standards and selectivity For the class of 2023, Bates admitted 12.1% of all applicants, the lowest-ever for the college. During the 2018–19 admission rounds, Bates accepted seven transfer students from 205 applicants, yielding a 3.4% acceptance rate. The college has had years where no transfer applicants were accepted, such as in 2016–17, where all 170 applicants failed to gain admission. In 2015, the college had a 1.6% acceptance rate for wait-listed students. U.S. News & World Report classifies Bates as "most selective", with The Princeton Review designated it with a "selectivity rating" of 96 out of 99. The college had its highest admit rate after the 2008 financial crisis, during the 2008–09 year, accepting 30.4% of applicants. The average high school GPA for the class of 2019 was an unweighted 3.71. The average SAT Score was 2135 (715 Critical Reasoning, 711 Mathematics and 709 Writing), and the average