September 14, 2001

865 strong, wow!

Faculty, staff, and student leaders at Loyola are welcoming another record setting number of excellent students in the incoming freshmen class. The Class of 2005 is made up of 880 students, a 4.5 percent increase over last year's enrollment.

The new class's average standardized combined test scores for the SAT is 1215 and the students have an ACT composite of 26. Their combined grade point average is 3.63. Both of these scores have increased from last year. These figures are also significant when compared to the scores of the national college-bound population's average scores of 1019 for the SAT and 21 on the ACT. The students are from 41 states and 17 foreign countries.