{"id":23883,"date":"2023-03-30T10:56:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T15:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=23883"},"modified":"2023-03-30T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T15:56:21","slug":"study-of-selfies-dubs-baylor-the-no-4-happiest-college-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2023\/03\/study-of-selfies-dubs-baylor-the-no-4-happiest-college-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Study of selfies dubs Baylor the No. 4 ‘happiest college in the U.S.’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Students<\/p>\n

We’ve already got detailed studies that show the Baylor experience is among the best in the nation — whether you measure that in terms of first-year experience<\/a>, engagement on campus<\/a>, trust<\/a>, or desirability<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, a new study adds to that list — ranking Baylor the No. 4 “happiest college in the U.S.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s how that conclusion was reached: The folks at Resume.io used an AI facial recognition tool to detect smiles in Instagram selfies geotagged at different universities, then ranked colleges based on the percentage of happy-looking faces. Those numbers found smiles on 62% of faces geo-tagged at Baylor — which ranked BU fourth in the nation.<\/p>\n

Is this the most scientific survey ever conducted? Perhaps not. But it sure is nice to see all those happy faces on campus, and we thought it was a fun enough story (pun intended) to merit sharing.<\/p>\n

Sic \u2019em, happy Bears!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve already got detailed studies that show the Baylor experience is among the best in the nation — whether you measure that in terms of first-year experience, engagement on campus, trust, or desirability. Now, a new study adds to that list — ranking Baylor the No. 4 “happiest college in the U.S.” Here’s how that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honors","category-just-for-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23883","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=23883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}