{"id":9661,"date":"2015-10-02T16:09:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T20:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=9661"},"modified":"2015-10-02T16:09:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T20:09:49","slug":"ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-class-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=9661","title":{"rendered":"Ten Things You Need to Know About: The Class of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9662\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9662 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/5J4A1313-11.jpg\" alt=\"5J4A1313-(1)\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/5J4A1313-11.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/5J4A1313-11-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Dustin Fenstermacher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">1.<\/span> Competition was fierce: TCNJ received 11,337 applications (a record).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">2.<\/span> Among the 1,470 first-year students enrolled are 395 former varsity captains, 42 former class presidents, and 10 sets of twins.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">3.<\/span> Defying categorization, this class also includes a pageant winner, a licensed pilot, a sailing champ, a bereavement camp counselor, a furniture restorer, a sitar player, and a student who founded a charity that finances low-cost meals for senior citizens living in India.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">4.<\/span> A student from Taiwan made the longest trip to get to TCNJ (7,898 miles), while 10 Ewing residents opted to stay within the township limits for their college experience.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">5.<\/span> Samantha and Matthew are the most popular names in this crowd, with 20 and 23, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">6.<\/span> Biology, nursing, and psychology are the most popular majors for this class.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">7.<\/span> If you want to know how to get to Carnegie Hall, ask one of the seven freshmen who\u2019ve performed there. Their answer will likely be, \u201cPractice, practice, practice!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">8.<\/span> The Class of 2019 talks. A lot. In many languages (31, to be exact).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">9.<\/span> Can you imagine a world without Google? This class doesn\u2019t have to. Most of them were born in 1997; Google was founded in 1998.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">10.<\/span> Attending TCNJ is a family tradition for the 230 freshmen with a legacy connection (a parent, sibling, or grandparent who is a TCNJ grad).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get to know the newest group of future TCNJ alumni. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-2015","category-tcnj-x10"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}