{"id":20828,"date":"2018-04-27T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T20:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=20828"},"modified":"2018-04-27T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T20:23:11","slug":"youtube-stars-brooklyn-bailey-join-baylors-class-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2018\/04\/youtube-stars-brooklyn-bailey-join-baylors-class-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube stars Brooklyn &#038; Bailey join Baylor&#8217;s Class of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20829\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/brooklyn-and-bailey-apr18.jpg\" alt=\"Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight at Baylor\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/brooklyn-and-bailey-apr18.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/brooklyn-and-bailey-apr18-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/brooklyn-and-bailey-apr18-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynandbailey.com\/\">Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight<\/a> are not your average teenage girls. The twins from the Dallas area have built <a href=\"http:\/\/planoprofile.com\/2018\/02\/10\/brooklyn-bailey-two-dfw-teens-finding-stardom-opportunity-youtube\/\">an incredible online community<\/a>, with more than\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">5 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/BrooklynAndBailey\">YouTube<\/a> subscribers, 3 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/brooklynandbailey\/\">Instagram<\/a> followers, and hundreds of thousands more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BrooklynAndBailey\/\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrookAndBailey\/\">Twitter<\/a> followers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And this fall, they&#8217;re headed to Baylor as part of the Class of 2022!<\/p>\n<p>They announced the news Wednesday on their YouTube channel via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bwu6r_RJ804\">a video<\/a> that, in the first 48 hours, was viewed 1.2 million times:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bwu6r_RJ804?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I walked on that campus for the first time, I fell in love with it,&#8221; said Brooklyn. &#8220;It just felt like home; it felt like something I could see myself being at for four years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We both felt the same way when we got to Baylor&#8217;s campus,&#8221; added Bailey. &#8220;It was beautiful, everyone was super friendly, and we felt super welcomed when we went. &#8230;\u00a0And we have an awesome entrepreneurship program, which we&#8217;re really excited for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Baylor!<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Brooklyn and Bailey!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>You might also like:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2018\/02\/incoming-freshman-surprised-with-a-full-tuition-scholarship-to-baylor-university\/\">Incoming freshman surprised with a full-tuition scholarship to Baylor University<\/a> (Feb. 2018)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2017\/09\/fall-2017-numbers-show-record-diversity-retention-rate-interest-in-baylor\/\">Fall 2017 numbers show record diversity, retention rate &amp; interest in Baylor<\/a> (Sept. 2017)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2015\/08\/how-god-made-his-plans-for-one-baylor-student-clear-as-concrete\/\">How God made His plans for one Baylor student \u2018clear as concrete\u2019<\/a> (Aug. 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight are not your average teenage girls. The twins from the Dallas area have built an incredible online community, with more than\u00a05 million YouTube subscribers, 3 million Instagram followers, and hundreds of thousands more Facebook and Twitter followers.\u00a0 And this fall, they&#8217;re headed to Baylor as part of the Class of 2022! 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