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DID YOU KNOW?

  1. Numbering more than 7,000, Temple’s new students are the most highly qualified cohort in the university’s history.
  2. Breaking all records, nearly 36,500 prospective students toured Temple in 2009.
  3. Temple’s student calling center completed 75,772 telephone calls to prospective students in 2009-10.
  4. 525 new students this fall have at least one parent who graduated from Temple, 17% more than in fall 2009.
  5. 214 children of employees are new students this fall, 56% more than in fall 2009.
  6. The number of children of alumni in Temple's freshmen class has doubled since last fall.

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Class profile tells story of Temple’s rising appeal.

Another record-breaking class of new undergraduates has arrived. Projected to total more than 7,000, Temple's new students are the most highly qualified cohort in the university's history. Once final enrollment numbers are tallied in mid-September, they may end up being the largest as well.

Nearly 4,300 freshmen will start classes next week. The freshman class comes to Temple with an average SAT score of 1114, five points higher than last year's record average, 98 points higher than the national average and 120 points higher than the Pennsylvania average. Joining the freshmen will be more than 2,700 transfers with a collective transfer grade point average of 3.07, another all-time high.