
{"id":12156,"date":"2010-08-26T10:30:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T18:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=12156"},"modified":"2010-08-26T10:30:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T18:30:57","slug":"a-snapshot-of-unc%e2%80%99s-incoming-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/08\/26\/a-snapshot-of-unc%e2%80%99s-incoming-class\/","title":{"rendered":"A snapshot of UNC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s incoming class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s traditional when the fall semester rolls around for the university to send along a few statistics about the first-year students arriving in town.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a look at some of the facts and figures:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Admitted first-year students hail from 98 N.C. counties, 42 states, the District of Columbia and 27 other countries<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 23,275 applied, 7,547 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 32 percent \u00e2\u20ac\u201c were admitted and 3,990 are expected to enroll.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 19 percent are first-generation college students.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 41.9 percent ranked 10th or higher in their class.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The average SAT score was a 1304 average combined score on reading and math, 644 in critical reading, 660 in math and 637 in writing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 94.3 percent of the students have volunteered in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 54.5 percent have traveled outside the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 17 percent have achieved fluency in another language.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 48.1 percent were presidents of classes or clubs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 27.2 percent conducted research outside the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular majors of the enrolling class as indicated on their applications are biology, business administration, journalism, political science, chemistry, psychology and pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p>Overall enrollment at the campus this year is 28,916 students. Of those, 17,981 are undergraduates, 8,386 are in graduate school and 2,549 are in professional programs.<\/p>\n<p>Classes at the university began Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Staff Reports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s traditional when the fall semester rolls around for the university to send along a few statistics about the first-year students arriving in town. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a look at some of the facts and figures:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools","category-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12224,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156\/revisions\/12224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}