{"id":2025,"date":"2010-04-21T17:43:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=2025"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:41:03","slug":"go-figures-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2004\/fallwinter04\/quad-angles\/go-figures-5\/","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\" \/> Last spring, Bates was among 28 private, four-year nonsectarian colleges that gave the &#8220;Your First College Year&#8221; survey to its incoming students. With 386 of 485 students responding, or 80 percent, here are some findings about their first Bates year &#8211; all expressed in percentages:<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 80%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody><\/tbody>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"95%\">Became close friends with other students<\/td>\n<td>89<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Got to know faculty<\/td>\n<td>87<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Would probably\/definitely choose Bates again<\/td>\n<td>85<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Satisfied with student sense of community<\/td>\n<td>79<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em> Same question posed at other colleges<\/em>*<\/td>\n<td>69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Drank beer occasionally\/frequently<\/td>\n<td>81<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em> Same question posed at other colleges<\/em><\/td>\n<td>64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bates men who drank beer in high school<\/td>\n<td>63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Men who drank beer at Bates<\/td>\n<td>79<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Women who drank beer in high school<\/td>\n<td>52<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Women who drank beer at Bates<\/td>\n<td>82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Study at least 11 hours per week<\/td>\n<td>51<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em> Same question posed at other colleges<\/em><\/td>\n<td>44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Highly value developing a meaningful life philosophy<\/td>\n<td>65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em> Same question posed at other colleges<\/em><\/td>\n<td>54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last spring, Bates was among 28 private, four-year nonsectarian colleges that gave&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":2014,"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-2025","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2025","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=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11470,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2025\/revisions\/11470"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}