Today marks move-in day for the Wofford College Class of 2028. The class, selected from the largest applicant pool in the college’s 170-year history, consists of 427 students who hail from 24 states and five countries. Also arriving on campus today are 23 transfer students.
Here’s an overview of the Class of 2028:
- The class has 117 legacy students, which means they are following a family member to Wofford.
- Student-athletes total 115.
- Pell Grant recipients total 89 students.
- The class has 58 first-generation college students.
- There are 45 Palmetto Fellows.
- Four students have a parent who works at Wofford.
Their high school accomplishments:
- The class average GPA is 3.65 (4.0 scale).
- 180 team captains.
- 58 were club presidents.
- 11 editors of high school publications.
- 15 received Gold and Eagle Scout awards.
- 10 were student body presidents.
- 58 club presidents.
- 47 participated in Boys State and Girls State.
- 10 were student body presidents.
- 10 were valedictorians or salutatorians.
- There are multiple AP Scholars.
Fun facts about the class:
- There’s a four-time state champ in tennis.
- A student designed a non-invasive diabetes monitor that placed first in South Carolina and fourth internationally in the Health Occupations Students of America design competition.
- One is a national top 10 javelin thrower.
- Two have summitted Mount Kilimanjaro.
- One is an academic All-American in lacrosse.
- The class has a student who ran more than 1,000 miles during his senior year.
- There’s a student who was named Best News Anchor by the Alabama Scholastic Press Association.
- One represented South Carolina at a national U.S. Department of Defense research fair.
- A student earned straight A’s from kindergarten through 12th grade.
- One can list all U.S. presidents in less than 25 seconds.
- One was a member of a national championship-winning volleyball team.
- There’s a Nantahala River rafting guide.
- One is a commissioned artist.
- Multiple skydivers.