{"id":1347,"date":"2013-03-18T11:39:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T15:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2014-04-06T22:37:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T02:37:19","slug":"record-setting-applicant-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/2013\/03\/18\/record-setting-applicant-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-Setting Applicant Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2013\/number-of-applicants-to-bu-class-of-2017-sets-record\/\">52,532 students applied for admission<\/a> at Boston University, a nearly 20% spike over last year\u2019s record of 44,006 applicants. The University saw a 19% increase in applications from African American students and Hispanic and Latino students, and a 39% increase from international students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 52,532 students applied for admission at Boston University, a nearly 20% spike over last year\u2019s record of 44,006 applicants. The University saw a 19% increase in applications from African American students and Hispanic and Latino students, and a 39% increase from international students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}