{"id":2153,"date":"2009-09-16T09:01:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T14:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2009-09-16T09:01:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T14:01:21","slug":"class-of-2013-the-most-diverse-in-baylor-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/09\/class-of-2013-the-most-diverse-in-baylor-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2013 the most diverse in Baylor history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"linecampfaces-sept09\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/linecampfaces-sept09.jpg\" alt=\"Faces at Baylor Line Camp\" width=\"225\" height=\"253\" \/>School&#8217;s been in session for almost a month already (how time flies!), which means we now have official numbers on this year&#8217;s enrollment. Even in this down economy, Baylor is bigger than ever, with 14,614 students on campus this fall &#8212; the fourth straight year that enrollment has topped 14,000.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more exciting is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/pr\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=61024\" target=\"_blank\">continued growth in minority enrollment<\/a>; a record 35% of first-year students are minorities, up from last year&#8217;s record 31%. Over the past four years, minority enrollment among freshmen has increased 62%, making <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2009\/03\/indian-student-group-shares-culture-through-dandiya-night-dance-off\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor the second-most diverse school in the Big 12<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Demand for a Baylor education continues to be strong, as well. Not only did Baylor enroll a near-record number of freshmen this fall (second only to last year), the University also received a record number of applications &#8212; somewhere in the neighborhood of 31,000 high school seniors last year applied to become Baylor Bears! And the continued growth has not hurt the class of 2013&#8217;s academic quality, either; officials reported an increase in the freshman class&#8217; academic index, which measures a combination of class rank and SAT\/ACT scores.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor students!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School&#8217;s been in session for almost a month already (how time flies!), which means we now have official numbers on this year&#8217;s enrollment. Even in this down economy, Baylor is bigger than ever, with 14,614 students on campus this fall &#8212; the fourth straight year that enrollment has topped 14,000. Perhaps more exciting is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}