{"id":40802241687,"date":"2019-10-23T14:37:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T18:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802241687"},"modified":"2019-10-28T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T15:34:09","slug":"meet-the-class-of-2023-at-monmouth-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/meet-the-class-of-2023-at-monmouth-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Class of 2023 at Monmouth University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-40802241717 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/10\/19-INCOMING-INFO-WEB-1.jpg\" alt=\"Meet Monmouth University\u2019s first-time, full-time students in the 2019 incoming class. Among the 994 first-time, full-time students, the average incoming GPA is 3.47. Ten percent of the students were accepted to the honors school, 45% are first generation students, and 16% are DI student athletes.  The incoming class comes from 23 states (plus the District of Columbia) and 13 countries are represented by 14 students \u2014Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Lithuania, Netherlands, South Africa, United Kingdom, and Vietnam. There are representatives from all 21 New Jersey counties and the most popular hometown is Staten Island, with 32 students. The top five majors selected are: No. 1 Business Administration; No. 2 Health Studies\/Health and Physical Education; No. 3 Biology\/Marine and Environmental Biology and Policy; No. 4 Education; and tied at No. 5, Psychology and Communication. There are nine students born on July 11 and the most popular car color is white, with 87 cars. The most popular names are Matthew (17); Samantha (13); Nicholas (14); and Emily (10). There are 123 students who speak both English and Spanish; three sets of twins; 84 students related to a Monmouth alum; and 77 students who participated in performing arts in high school.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/10\/19-INCOMING-INFO-WEB-1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/10\/19-INCOMING-INFO-WEB-1-158x300.jpg 158w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/10\/19-INCOMING-INFO-WEB-1-768x1455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/10\/19-INCOMING-INFO-WEB-1-541x1024.jpg 541w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/10\/19-INCOMING-INFO-WEB-1-1120x2121.jpg 1120w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/10\/19-INCOMING-INFO-WEB-1-560x1061.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/10\/19-INCOMING-INFO-WEB-1-280x530.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/10\/19-INCOMING-INFO-WEB-1-320x606.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/10\/19-INCOMING-INFO-WEB-1-640x1212.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/10\/19-INCOMING-INFO-WEB-1-1400x2652.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/10\/19-INCOMING-INFO-WEB-1-1024x1939.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/10\/19-INCOMING-INFO-WEB-1-360x682.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/10\/19-INCOMING-INFO-WEB-1-1056x2000.jpg 1056w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/10\/19-INCOMING-INFO-WEB-1-79x150.jpg 79w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Monmouth&#8217;s 994 first-year, full-time students. Find out where they&#8217;re from, what majors they selected, most popular names and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":40802241824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"person":[],"audience":[14,17,11,8],"school":[],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802241687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","audience-alumni","audience-community-member","audience-current-student","audience-faculty"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802241687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802241687"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802241687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802241866,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802241687\/revisions\/40802241866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802241824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802241687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802241687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802241687"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802241687"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802241687"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802241687"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802241687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}