Temple Student Move In Set For Aug 21

PHILADELPHIA — Temple University students will be moving in to their new homes this week, the school said.

Parents, siblings, relatives and friends will help in assisting with unpacking the newest Owls’ possessions. University Housing and Residential Life staff will be on hand guiding students as they move in their belongings.

Students will be moving into the 27-story Morgan Residence Hall and Dining Complex—Temple’s newest and largest residence hall—among other halls. Move-in continues throughout the week. Temple’s first day of classes is Monday, Aug. 26.

The Class of 2023 comprises roughly 5,000 first-year students, along with an anticipated 2,400 transfer students set to join Temple University this year.

Students will be moving in from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Aug. 21.

Students moving into Morgan Hall, 1601 N. Broad St. — at the southeast corner of Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue — will enter at Park Avenue and Cecil B. Moore Avenue. Morgan Hall is No. 38 on the campus map.

Temple President Richard M. Englert will be handing out bottles of water and meeting with families at Morgan Hall at 10 a.m.

Check out 23 facts about the Temple Class of 2023, courtesy of the university:

1. Temple received 30,172 first-year student applications for the Class of 2023.
2. The number of registered first-year students in Temple’s Class of 2023 is approximately 5,000.
3. The number of registered new transfer students is approximately 2,400.
4. The average first-year student high-school GPA is 3.55.
5. The number of first-year students in Temple’s Honors Program is 526.
6. The average first-year student SAT score is 1240.
7. The number of high schools represented by Class of 2023 first-year students is 1,289.
8. First-year and transfer students represent 40 countries.
9. The greatest distance traveled by a first-year student (from her hometown of Phuket, Thailand to Temple University) is 9,111 miles.
10. The most common high schools among Class of 2023 first-year students are Philadelphia’s Central High School and Lansdale’s North Penn High School (78 students each).
11. First-year students and transfers come from 50 Pennsylvania counties.
12. First-year students and transfer students represent 40 states, plus Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.
13. The oldest new, incoming student is 61 years old.
14. The youngest registered new student is 16 years old.
15. There are 24 sets of twins among first-year students and transfers.
16. Matthew (42) and Olivia (43) are the most common first names among first-year students.
17. The most common last names among first-year students are Patel (51) and Smith (30).
18. Ten first-year students have 23 letters in their first and last names combined, making them perfect additions to the Class of 2023.
19. Twenty-one first-year students share a birthday, Dec. 13, with Temple President Richard M. Englert.
20. Nineteen students share a birthday, Feb. 15, with Temple founder Russell Conwell.
21. Five students have the word “owl” or “Temple” in their last names.
22. The most popular major among first-year students is biology (363 students).
23. Two freshmen hail from Temple, Pennsylvania.