Statistics profiling the 47 students chosen to live in non-endowed Lawn rooms and the 287 Lawn applicants were recently released by the University Housing Division. The data reveals the average GPAs and popular majors of those students who applied to live on the Lawn as well as of those who were selected.
Students from the College comprised the greatest number of applicants and the greatest number of students accepted, at 211 and 37 respectively. In total, 78 percent of incoming Lawn residents are College students.
The only school not represented on the Lawn next year is the Education School. None of the eight applicants affiliated with the Education School were accepted, including six students who are co-enrolled in the College. There are five incoming Lawn residents from the Engineering School, one student from the Nursing School and one from the Architecture School.
Twenty of the 47 residents are studying political and social thought, American Studies, economics or political philosophy, policy and law. Of the 25 applicants majoring in Commerce programs, three were accepted. Next year about 10 percent of the Lawn residents will be studying political and social thought, a larger percentage than any other major.
The average GPA of the incoming Lawn resident is 3.717, three-tenths of a grade point higher than the average GPA of the applicant pool.
According to Tom Holman, head resident of the Lawn and non-voting member of the Lawn selection committee, academic excellence and scholarship is one of the main criteria on which applicants are judged.
"It takes a serious academic commitment to get on the Lawn," Holman said.
How heavily GPA is weighed depends upon each individual voting member of the committee, he said.
Other criteria include leadership positions and other extracurricular activities, Holman said. The members decide for themselves what attributes they think are most important and judge each candidate individually, he added.
"They have to consider the criteria and make the best decision that they can," Holman said.
The University Housing Division also released a list of the top-20 extracurricular activities of incoming Lawn residents and applicants; however the data has proved to be inaccurate.
The list was compiled based on the activities applicants listed on their applications, but according to Director of Accommodations John Evans, students may not have listed all of the organizations they were affiliated with.
The extracurricular information came directly from the applications, Evans said, but the information was embedded in applicants' essays.
"The way people put those things in their applications requires some interpretation," he said.
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