A balloon display welcomes this year’s freshman class. (Norm Shafer)
The University of Mary Washington welcomed an estimated 1,380 freshmen and transfer students in late August, its largest-ever incoming class.
Of those, about 1,000 are first-time freshmen. Most hail from Virginia, but some come from 25 other states and Washington, D.C. Students from Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and North Carolina chose UMW – but so did students from California, Oregon, Washington state, and Hawaii. Aloha!
Nearly a quarter – 24 percent – identify as minorities, including Hispanic/Latino, American Indian or
Alaska Native, Asian, black or African American, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, and multiracial.
Transfer students are important too. More than 350 enrolled at UMW this fall, most from Germanna Community College and Northern Virginia Community College campuses in Annandale and Woodbridge.
The middle 50 percent of entering freshmen – meaning 25 percent scored higher and 25 percent scored lower – earned, on average, a high school GPA of 3.54, an ACT composite score of 24, and SAT scores of 540 in math, 564 in verbal, and 544 in writing.