{"id":5835,"date":"2017-07-25T13:58:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T20:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2017-08-25T09:48:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T16:48:17","slug":"harvey-mudd-college-welcomes-class-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2017\/07\/25\/harvey-mudd-college-welcomes-class-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Mudd Class of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, Harvey Mudd College welcomes 227 exceptional students to the incoming class of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The College continues its efforts to build a more diverse community, recognizing that such a community strengthens the education and experience for all students. The diversity of the Class of 2021 is a reflection of this ongoing commitment.<\/p>\n<p>The entering class is 22 percent Asian, 21 percent Latino\/Latina, 5 percent African or African-American, 31 percent white and 14 percent multiracial. Students entering from public schools make up 56 percent. Women comprise 52 percent, one of the highest gender ratios of any science- and engineering-focused institution.<\/p>\n<p>The incoming class also represents a diversity of talent, including a wrestling champion, app developers, a United States Naval Observatory intern, a student with two patents pending, a pre-professional ballerina and the founder of a longboard company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, Harvey Mudd College welcomes 227 exceptional students to the incoming class of 2021. The College continues its efforts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":5950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,83,30],"class_list":["post-5835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-diversity","category-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}