{"id":622,"date":"2008-09-16T09:55:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T15:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/09\/16\/student-body-biggest-in-baylor-history\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T09:55:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T15:55:06","slug":"student-body-biggest-in-baylor-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/09\/student-body-biggest-in-baylor-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Student body biggest in Baylor history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/late-night-slc-sept08.jpg\" alt=\"Late Night at the SLC\" align=\"right\" \/>We covered most of this <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/08\/26\/class-of-2012-second-largest-most-diverse-in-baylor-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">back when school started a couple of weeks ago<\/a>, but now that official numbers are in, we thought it was worth following up on.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, Baylor&#8217;s freshman class is the second-largest in school history (that&#8217;s some of them pictured at right, during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/student_activities\/campus_programs\/index.php?id=55041\" target=\"_blank\">Late Night at the SLC<\/a>). The Class of 2012&#8217;s total of 3,062 students trails only the Class of 2009&#8217;s freshman total; in 2005, Baylor welcomed 3,168 freshmen.<\/p>\n<p>The academic quality and diversity came through as projected, too. The freshman class&#8217; average SAT score of 1210 does indeed mark the third straight year that the incoming students&#8217; score has been over 1200. Minority enrollment is also a record at 31 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The large incoming class means <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/pr\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=52653\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor&#8217;s student body is bigger than ever<\/a>, with 14,541 students on campus. The previous record came in 2001, when the University hosted 14,221 students. This fall&#8217;s total includes a record 1,369 graduate students. Truett Seminary and Baylor&#8217;s School of Law each welcomed over 400 students (a record 406 for Truett).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to see that kind of demand for a Baylor education!<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, students!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We covered most of this back when school started a couple of weeks ago, but now that official numbers are in, we thought it was worth following up on. As expected, Baylor&#8217;s freshman class is the second-largest in school history (that&#8217;s some of them pictured at right, during Late Night at the SLC). The Class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}