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Do you know how their educational standards measure up?

This from Wikipedia (which I think is well sourced and pretty accurate ) :

Rankings

Grove City has an acceptance rate around 56%.[22] About 14% of its most recent freshman class are either high school valedictorians or salutatorians.[18] The average GPA of entering freshmen is 3.74 unweighted and 3.98 weighted.[23] The average ACT score of the 2011 incoming freshmen class was 28.[24] The average SAT score of the 2011 incoming freshman class was 1269.[24] The average SAT scores were as follows: Math—644; Critical Reading—635; Writing—not reported.[25]

Grove City was ranked as the nation's second most politically conservative college by US News and World Report. [26] Human Events Magazine ranks it as one of the cream of the crop in America's conservative colleges.[27] Among all colleges, however, the widely-followed US News and World Report college rankings place Grove City in the third tier of liberal arts colleges.[28] The conservative think tank Free Congress Foundation, includes Grove City among its list of top colleges that provide excellent liberal arts.[29] For two consecutive years (2006 and 2007), The Young America's Foundation placed Grove City in its Top 10 Conservative Colleges list. The schools on this list offer coursework and scholarship in conservative thought and emphasize principles including smaller government, strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values.[30] Fiske Guide to Getting Into the Right College concurs and lists Grove City among its top 10 conservative colleges.[31]

According to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's 2007 publication of Choosing the Right College, the 2007 US News and World Report college guide ranks Grove City the number one "best value" among northern comprehensive colleges—the fifth year running the school has earned that distinction. The school has a total cost (including tuition, room, and board) of $19,414 a year. Similarly, Barron’s Educational Series has called Grove City College a "Best Buy"[32] and USA TODAY ranks Grove City among the top 100 best value colleges in the nation for 2009.[33] It has also been positively reviewed in the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's guide Choosing the Right College: The Whole Truth about America's Top Schools. Princeton Review also ranks Grove City College as among the Top 20 in career/job placement services based on satisfaction of students who graduate from the school.[34] It is considered one of the most home school friendly colleges in the Northeast.[35][36] Grove City College is also considered one of the most selective Christian colleges in the nation.[18] Barron's Guide to the Most Competitive Colleges - 2004 also lists Grove City College as one of the 65 Most Competitive Colleges and Universities in the nation.[37] College Data's Online College Advisor profile ranks Grove City as Most Difficult in terms of entrance requirement.[25] Peterson's College Guide also ranks its entrance requirement as Most Difficult.[38]

In two consecutive nationwide studies made by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) in cooperation with researchers from the University of Connecticut's Department of Public Policy to determine the extent of civic literacy in higher education,[39] Grove City College students ranked among the top 5 nationally in terms of knowledge of U.S. history, government, economy and international relations. The study was based on the results of a multiple-choice test given to 14,000 randomly chosen freshmen and seniors on 50 college and university campuses.[40] In two consecutive years of ISI's study, Grove City was ranked number 4 in 2006[41] and number 2 in 2007,[42] above most Ivy league universities.[43]

College Prowler, the largest publisher of college content in the United States, gave Grove City College an "A+" rating for the safety and security of the campus, according to its latest released rankings. Only 12 schools in the USA received the highest rating.[44][45] The high grade "means that students generally feel safe, campus police are visible, blue-light phones and escort services are readily available, and safety precautions are not overly necessary," according to the College Prowler guide. The rating is a result of the recommendation of the guide’s student author, direct student feedback and other factors such as the presence and size of a police force and security staff, services provided, the area and campus crime reports, security of dormitories and the prevalence of campus theft.