{"id":33863,"date":"2024-08-26T16:13:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=33863"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:13:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:13:22","slug":"facts-and-figures-for-the-furman-class-of-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/facts-and-figures-for-the-furman-class-of-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts and Figures for the Furman Class of 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman officially welcomed the Class of 2028 this morning with Convocation. There are 616 first-year Paladins, chosen from 10,813 applicants, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/admissions-aid\/apply\/\">Office of Admissions<\/a>. We welcomed another 42 students who transferred here.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few more interesting facts about the Class of 2028.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>58% female<\/li>\n<li>42% male<\/li>\n<li>28% racial and ethnic diversity (including international students)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>They&#8217;re from everywhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>40 states are represented<\/li>\n<li>26 countries are represented<\/li>\n<li>17% are from the Mid-Atlantic\/Northeast<\/li>\n<li>10% are from the West\/Midwest<\/li>\n<li>14% are from the Southeast (outside the Carolinas and Georgia)<\/li>\n<li>50% are from Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>They&#8217;re high academic achievers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3.66 unweighted core GPA<\/li>\n<li>7 class valedictorians<\/li>\n<li>127 in the top 10% of their graduating class<\/li>\n<li>201 National Honor Society members<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>They&#8217;re very well rounded.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>143 two-varsity athletes<\/li>\n<li>192 significantly involved in community service<\/li>\n<li>61 founded a club or organization<\/li>\n<li>64 lived outside the U.S.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>They&#8217;re innovators.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 podcasters<\/li>\n<li>5 business owners<\/li>\n<li>1 has 4,000 YouTube subscribers<\/li>\n<li>1 authored eight books<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find out more about this amazing class, and how to apply, from our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/admissions-aid\/new-student-profile\/\">New Student Profile<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who makes up the Class of 2028? Check out some of the details of the class, as a whole, and a few interesting tidbits about some of its individuals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":33875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2982,2981],"class_list":["post-33863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","tag-class-of-2028","tag-new-student-profile"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33863","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\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33865,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33863\/revisions\/33865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}