{"id":93572,"date":"2015-04-03T11:44:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T15:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=93572"},"modified":"2022-12-05T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:04:17","slug":"students-admitted-to-the-class-of-2019-are-the-academically-strongest-most-diverse-in-bates-history-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2015\/04\/03\/students-admitted-to-the-class-of-2019-are-the-academically-strongest-most-diverse-in-bates-history-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Students admitted to the Class of 2019 are the academically strongest, most diverse in Bates history"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prospective students and families take a summer campus tour. From a record number of applications to the Class of 2019, Bates extended offers of admission\u00a0 to the strongest, most diverse cohort in the college\u2019s history. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

Bates College<\/a> extended offers of admission to 1,208 students for the Class of 2019<\/a> from a record number of applicants, making it the strongest, most diverse admitted class in the college\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Among those offered admission, there are upward trends nearly across the board: More students of color, more first-generation college-goers, more in the top 10 percent of their high school class and (for those who submitted them) an average SAT\u00a0score 21 points higher than last year.<\/p>\n

And, they\u2019re from everywhere: all 50 states and 43 countries are represented in this year\u2019s group of admitted students.<\/p>\n

The Class of 2019 had an overall admit rate of 21.4 percent, the lowest in the college\u2019s history. The college received a record 5,636 applications, a 12-percent increase over last year.<\/p>\n

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During an on-campus Admitted Student Reception on April 10, 2015, Professor of Physics (and guitarist) John Smedley works with two prospective Class of 2019 students in the “Musical Waves and Spectra” master class. (Phyllis Graber Jensen)<\/p><\/div>\n

For Regular Decision, the college offered admission to 17.8 percent of applicants, also a record low.<\/p>\n

Of the 932 students offered admission during Regular Decision:<\/p>\n