Identities in Percentages
The percentage of students who either do not identify with a religion or identify with one other than Christianity.
What is 38%?
This incoming class is the largest class yet at GU.
What is false? This year's junior class (high school class of 2021) was the largest.
Between 2020 and 2023, there was a 35% increase in this activity that allows students to get involved and contribute to their family.
What is a job?
Nearly 1 in 5 of first year students in the incoming class come from this state.
What is California?
This holiday, celebrated in June, was invented in Spokane in 1910.
What is Father's Day?
The percentage of incoming first-year class that identify as a part of the LGBTQ+ community.
We don't know....it isn't appropriate to ask college applicants who they are attracted to or how they identify. However, according to a Gallup poll from 2022, nearly 20% of Gen Z identify as a part of the LGBTQIA+ community.
The number of international students this year is the same as last year.
What is true? 47 students from 21 countries outside the US
With almost twice as many students reporting involvement, this group of activities saw the biggest growth year over year?
What are sustainability clubs?
Nearly 2/3 of our students come from this type of high school?
What is public school?
Spokane was the smallest city to host this event in 1974.
What is the World's Fair?
The percentage of students who identify as BIPOC?
What is 33%? (35% if you count international students, as is counted in the strategic plan)
Half of our incoming first year class identifies as Catholic.
What is false? About 1/3 of our students identify as Catholic.
With 77% of incoming students reporting involvement in this type of activity, it is the most popular set of activities for our incoming class?
What are athletics?
Of the 11 states that are sending more than 10 students to Gonzaga, this state is the furthest from Washington?
What is Hawaii? (contiguous US...Texas)
A patron of Spokane and GU who donated to museums, gardens, parks, non-profits, and student scholarships
Who is Miss Mrytle Woldson?
What percentage of students from Spokane county identify as BIPOC or first generation?
51% - This compares to 40% in King County
There are more students on campus that had a job in high school than students who did not have a job in high school.
What is true? 60% of incoming students reported having a job on their application.
The percentage of students that indicated volunteer experience.
What is 70%?
This east coast state is one of only 3 states that haven’t been represented in the last 3 incoming first-year classes.
What is Rhode Island? (Mississippi and West Virginia are the other 2 states)
Despite being founded in 1873, Spokane was called this name until 1891.
What is Spokane Falls?
Of students that are not US citizens, how many countries sent Gonzaga multiple students?
7 - Canada, China, France, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam
This incoming class has more students from Southern California than Northern California.
What is false? 103 from SoCal, 140 from Northern California (this is flipped from last year)
What percentage of our students listed at least one activity on their common application
What is 100%
The 3 counties in the Pacific Northwest with the highest number of students in this years incoming class.
What are King, Spokane, and Multnomah counties?
Spokane is home of the largest of its kind in the United States.
What is an urban waterfall?