{"id":19242,"date":"2022-08-24T10:33:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T14:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=19242"},"modified":"2022-08-24T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T21:38:16","slug":"the-class-of-2026-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-class-of-2026-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Class of 2026 by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/admissions-aid\/student-profile-2026\/\">We\u2019ve been crunching the numbers<\/a>, and the figures don\u2019t lie: The Class of 2026 is an intriguing mix of eager students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>682<\/strong> students enrolled (from a pool of 7,533 applications)<br \/>\n<strong>57%<\/strong> are female; <strong>43%<\/strong> are male<br \/>\n<strong>39<\/strong> U.S. states and <strong>23<\/strong> countries are represented<br \/>\n<strong>59%<\/strong> come from South Carolina, North Carolina or Georgia<br \/>\n<strong>176<\/strong> were sports team captains<br \/>\n<strong>19<\/strong> were student body presidents<br \/>\n<strong>244<\/strong> were National Honor Society members<br \/>\n<strong>3.4-3.9<\/strong> was the middle 50th percentile unweighted core GPA<br \/>\n<strong>33<\/strong> edited a school publication<br \/>\n<strong>18<\/strong> participated in Mock Trial<br \/>\n<strong>1<\/strong> is training to be an American Ninja Warrior<\/p>\n<p><strong>There are more stats where those come from. Take a deep dive into our <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/admissions-aid\/student-profile-2026\/\">Class of 2026 Student Profile<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <strong>for all the facts and figures about our newest Dins.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been crunching the numbers, and the statistics don\u2019t lie: The latest group of first-year students is an intriguing mix of folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":19245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}