On Friday, Aug. 19, incoming Mines students will hike up Mt. Zion with a 10-pound rock from their hometown to add to the M. As is tradition, they will coat their rock with fresh whitewash at the mountainside monument. President Paul Johnson and Mines faculty and staff will join students in this year’s M Climb.
Mines again received a high number of applications (around 12,800) for the 2016-17 academic year, and the campus is expecting to welcome approximately 1,140 new students—1,000 freshmen and 140 transfer students. Of this total, 28% are women and 19% identify as underrepresented domestic ethnic or racial groups.
New students are coming to Mines with an average high school GPA of 3.8 (out of a 4.0 scale), average ACT score of 31 and SAT composite score of 1337.
Facts and stats about Mines Class of 2020:
- 118 first-generation college students
- Over 90 slated to join one of Mines varsity athletic teams
- 70 new transfer students from one of the five colleges (Red Rocks Community College, Arapahoe Community College, Community College of Denver, Community College of Aurora and Front Range Community College) with whom Mines has a formal transfer articulation agreement.
- 75 countries and 49 states represented
- 36 are new Harvey, Boettcher, Daniels, or Denver Scholarship Foundation Scholars
- 11 are graduates of the Mines SUMMET (Summer Multicultural Engineering Training program)
- 7 pairs of twins (a typical year includes 1 or 2)
The M Climb will kick off around 7:35 a.m. on the South Intramural Fields as members of Blue Key Honor Society spray paint the hard hats of incoming students. Students will take a bus across 6th street and will begin the climb below the arch on Lookout Mountain Road. Please note Lookout Mountain Road west of Highway 6 will be closed to public access during the M Climb. After the climb, students will take a bus back down to campus and will celebrate with a BBQ on the lawn south of Sigma Kappa.
New students move in this week and classes begin Monday, Aug. 22.
Contact:
Kathleen Morton, Digital Media and Communications Manager, Colorado School of Mines | 303-273-3088 | kmorton@mines.edu
Agata Bogucka, Communications Manager, College of Earth Resource Sciences & Engineering | 303-384-2657 | abogucka@mines.edu
