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This story originally appeared in the Daily Universe on Thursday, Sept. 28, 1961
A sophomore from Independence, Missouri, Tuesday became the 11,000th student to enroll at BYU for fall semester, thus boosting the school’s enrollment figures to a record high.
THE STUDENT whose registration brought the total to 11,000 is Larry Patton, 19-year-old speech therapy major.
In announcing the fall semester figures, President Ernest L. Wilkinson noted that, in terms of daytime enrollment, this is the first time a school in Utah has reached this figure. This is an increase, he said, of about 800 over BYU’s enrollment of last year.
“AS NEAR AS we can now tell, there will be around 11,100 students registered for first semester,” said Dr. Wilkinson. “In addition to the daytime enrollment, some 1022 others have registered in BYU’s evening school.”
Of those that registered last week, more than 4200 were freshmen, 2281 were sophomores, 2014 were juniors, 1808 were seniors and 602 were graduate students.
Copyright Brigham Young University 15 Nov 2005
