{"id":33279,"date":"2004-08-06T15:27:19","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T19:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=33279"},"modified":"2016-02-08T16:11:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T21:11:42","slug":"class-of-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/08\/06\/class-of-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2008 at a glance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/08\/convocation2003_web-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/08\/convocation2003_web-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"Convocation 2003\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bates received 3.5 applications for every  first-year student admitted to the Class of 2008, with 467 new  first-year students expected when the fall semester starts Sept. 8.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There were 4,250 applications from more than 100 countries and all 50  states.\u00a0 In all, some 1,690 students are expected on campus this fall,  with another 59 in Bates-sponsored programs in Japan, Berlin, Cape Town  and London.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Admissions Committee continues to be impressed with the high  quality of the students who are choosing to apply and then matriculate  at Bates,&#8221; says Dean of Admissions Wylie Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>Bates remained very selective this year, with an acceptance rate of  28 percent. At 40 percent, the proportion of accepted students who sent  deposits (in academic parlance, the &#8220;yield&#8221;) also continued very high.<\/p>\n<p>The gender ratio in the new class remains near parity, with 233 women  and 234 men. In addition to the first-year students, students new to  Bates include six women and three men transferring here from other  colleges or universities.<\/p>\n<p>The Class of 2008 includes 43 U.S. citizens who identified themselves  as racial or ethnic minorities, 17 international students, and another  17 students who hold dual citizenship in the United States and another  country.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign countries represented in the first-year class include  Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya,  Korea, Macedonia, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Sweden, Trinidad and  Tobago, Turkey and Vietnam. In all four class years, there are 135  international students. Bates students represent 68 countries, either by  birth or by citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The Class of 2008 includes students from 40 states. New England  states provide 61 percent of the total, with 135 students from  Massachusetts, 48 from Maine, 36 from Connecticut, 40 from New  Hampshire, 14 from Vermont and 12 from Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>Other states sending 10 or more students are New York (47), New  Jersey (18), California (11) and Pennsylvania (10).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates received 3.5 applications for every first-year student admitted to the Class of 2008, with 467 new first-year students expected when the fall semester starts Sept. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":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":""},"categories":[6,11012,11009],"tags":[10043,2325],"class_list":["post-33279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine-world","category-student-life","category-the-college","tag-admission","tag-class-of-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90631,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33279\/revisions\/90631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}