More people applied to the Class of 2028 than any other class in Wofford’s 170-year history. The 427 first-year students hail from 24 states and seven countries. Also new to the campus community are 23 transfer students. The class average GPA is 3.65 (4.0 scale).

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.

New students hail from Canada, Jamaica, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Finland and New Zealand.

Their high school accomplishments:

180 team captains.

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 valedictorians or salutatorians.

There are multiple AP Scholars with Distinction

Fun facts about the class:

7 sets of twins and one-third of a group of triplets.

There’s a four-time state champ in tennis.

One was a member of a national championship-winning volleyball team, and another was on a national champion dance team. There are other state champs and all-state performers in wrestling, choir, basketball and hockey. One student designed a noninvasive 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 U.S. Department of Defense national junior humanities and science symposium, presenting their research on Demodex brevis and folliculorum and their association with common skin diseases in teenagers.

A student earned straight A’s from kindergarten through 12th grade and received a proclamation from the S.C. House of Representatives.

One can list all 46 U.S. presidents in less than 25 seconds.

There’s a Nantahala River rafting guide.

One is a commissioned artist.

There are multiple skydivers.

One is a black belt in taekwondo.

One is a champion Little League baseball coach.

A student has caught fish in 35 states.

One is a baseball pitcher who registered 79 strikeouts in 50 innings.

There’s a student who has a collection of 99 hoodies.

One has the top score in Galaga at six arcades.

One student ate 15 scoops of ice cream in one sitting.

There’s one who watched 193 movies in 2023 and 146 so far this year.

One shot a four-under-par on the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland, and played with Lou Holtz at Augusta National.

There’s a student who skinned a squirrel and made a model from its bones.

One completed a marathon this past summer.

A student swam the Great Barrier Reef.

One student hiked Red Rocks, the Alps, the Athabasca Glacier and the Appalachian Trail, all this past summer.

There’s a student who saw Ed Sheeran, Zach Bryan, 21 Savage and Taylor Swift in concert.

One earned a pilot’s license.

One started a band named Easy Company.

A student restored their family’s 230-year-old farmhouse.

One completed a blacksmithing course.

A student improved his golf handicap from 30 to 16.

The class has a student who earned their real estate license.

One rebuilt the engine in a 1986 Chevy Silverado.

There’s a prom queen and king.

One is a certified nursing assistant.

The class has a student who is a licensed cosmetologist.

One is a shift leader at Chick-fil-A.

There’s a student who is an award-winning greeter at Cracker Barrel.

A student is a licensed pharmacy technician.

One is a dog groomer.

There’s a student who sailed from Maine to Key West, Florida.

One taught herself to play harmonica.