{"id":1749,"date":"2010-04-21T17:33:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=1749"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:39:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:39:01","slug":"go-figures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2005\/summer05\/quad-angles\/go-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/Summer04\/gofig.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What sets Bates students apart from the rest? The following table may provide a few clues. In a national survey of incoming firstyears, members of the Class of 2008 at Bates (<span style=\"color: #a7001e\">garnet figure<\/span>) and at 38 other very selective institutions (black figure) revealed their typical activities during the last year of high school.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Activity<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #a7001e\">Bates<\/span>\/Other Colleges<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Came late to class<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #a7001e\">62.5<\/span>\/65.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Was bored in class<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #a7001e\">31.3<\/span>\/40.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tutored another student<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #a7001e\">62.0<\/span>\/66.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Studied with other students<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #a7001e\">95.4<\/span>\/90.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Asked a teacher for advice after class<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #a7001e\">40.3<\/span>\/34.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Was a guest in a teacher&#8217;s home<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #a7001e\">44.4<\/span>\/33.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Performed community service as part of a class<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #a7001e\">56.9<\/span>\/51.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Voted in a student election<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #a7001e\">31.7<\/span>\/28.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Worked on a local\/state\/national political campaign<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #a7001e\">17.7<\/span>\/13.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Drank beer<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #a7001e\">68.6<\/span>\/54.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Drank wine or liquor<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #a7001e\">66.4<\/span>\/62.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Maintained a healthy diet<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #a7001e\">56.1<\/span>\/51.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Stayed up all night<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #a7001e\">63.0<\/span>\/69.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What sets Bates students apart from the rest? The following table may&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":1557,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-1749","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11469,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1749\/revisions\/11469"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}