{"id":40257,"date":"2025-11-12T15:55:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=40257"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:55:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:55:55","slug":"furman-hosts-interested-students-from-190-high-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-hosts-interested-students-from-190-high-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman hosts interested students from 190 high schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High school students from 21 different states are bound for Furman University on Saturday for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/admissions-aid\/visit-furman\/fall-furman\/\">Fall for Furman<\/a>, a chance for interested students to tour with current students, talk with faculty and tailgate and attend a Paladin football game. For 149 students, this Fall for Furman will be their very first Furman event, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/elizabeth-hawthorne\/\">Elizabeth Hawthorne Martin<\/a>, director of recruitment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40255\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40255\" class=\"wp-image-40255 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/11\/100425_Fall-for-Furman_13-768x511.jpg\" alt=\"A male tour guide speaks to a high school student while three other people follow them on a walking tour of a college campus.\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/11\/100425_Fall-for-Furman_13-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/11\/100425_Fall-for-Furman_13-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/11\/100425_Fall-for-Furman_13-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/11\/100425_Fall-for-Furman_13-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/11\/100425_Fall-for-Furman_13-512x341.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/11\/100425_Fall-for-Furman_13-1280x852.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2025\/11\/100425_Fall-for-Furman_13.jpg 1920w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/266;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fall for Furman is a chance for visiting high school students to experience campus and learn about the university&#8217;s academic opportunities and supportive faculty. Photo by Nathan Gray, Furman University.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The event offers each visiting student one-on-one time with their admissions counselors. For students still deciding whether to apply, this visit lets them see if Furman is the right fit; for those who are confident Furman is their pick, they can \u201cenvision life as a Paladin and gather helpful application insights,\u201d Martin said. Furman\u2019s students are eager to meet prospective Paladins; nearly 80 are helping make this event happen.<\/p>\n<p>Fall for Furman offers students:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A guided tour of Furman\u2019s campus with current students<\/li>\n<li>Conversations with professors and mentors to learn about the more than 75 areas of study<\/li>\n<li>Information about institutional aid and scholarships<\/li>\n<li>A deeper dive into student life, housing and Furman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/furman-advantage\/pathways-program\/\">Pathways advising program<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lunch on campus \u2013 don\u2019t miss the legendary cookies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall for Furman on Saturday, Nov. 15 invites high school juniors and seniors to tour Furman\u2019s campus and connect with its community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":40256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-campus-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257","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\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40259,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40257\/revisions\/40259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}