{"id":27135,"date":"2023-08-17T10:57:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T14:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=27135"},"modified":"2023-08-21T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:34:53","slug":"facts-and-figures-about-the-class-of-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/facts-and-figures-about-the-class-of-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts and figures about the Class of 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few years, we\u2019ll have ample opportunity to get to know the newest arrivals on campus. But judging by the facts and figures gathered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/admissions-aid\/\">Office of Admissions<\/a>, we can already tell that the Class of 2027 is an intriguing bunch of humans.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>627 incoming students<\/strong> (selected from 8,402 applicants) are a diverse group from all around the globe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>57% female<\/li>\n<li>43% male<\/li>\n<li>30% racial and ethnic diversity (including international students)<\/li>\n<li>35 U.S. states represented<\/li>\n<li>58% from the Carolinas and Georgia<\/li>\n<li>47 countries represented<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They\u2019re high academic achievers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3.66 unweighted core GPA<\/li>\n<li>150 National Honor Society members<\/li>\n<li>15 class valedictorians<\/li>\n<li>7 class salutatorians<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Their activities, talents and interests include a little bit of everything:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>118 sports team captains<\/li>\n<li>24 student body presidents<\/li>\n<li>56 musical group leaders<\/li>\n<li>34 school publication editors<\/li>\n<li>72 theater performers<\/li>\n<li>85 visual artists<\/li>\n<li>15 entrepreneurs and small-business owners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And among the first-year students, you may also meet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A volunteer giraffe expert<\/li>\n<li>The first female to play in a North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association football game<\/li>\n<li>The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Student of the Year<\/li>\n<li>A beekeeper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Take a deep dive into the statistics and get to know the newest Paladins in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/admissions-aid\/new-student-profile\/\">Class of 2027 Student Profile<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics don\u2019t lie: The newest Paladins bring an impressive array of talents, interests and achievements to campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":27204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-student-life","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27135","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=27135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}