Based on sampled GPA data collected and applied, it is estimated that the SFSU average GPA range for accepted students is around 2.98 - 3.25. An estimated 60 percent of all students which applied were admitted at SFSU, and from those that were granted acceptance nearly 19 percent continued on to attend.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic words as published in the February, 1862, issue of The Atlantic Monthly are slightly different from those in the original manuscript version by Julia Ward Howe as documented in her Reminiscences 1819-1899, published in 1899.
The U.S. National Anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, was written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key. Key was sent to the British fleet in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812 to secure the release of Dr. William Beanes on September 13, 1814. Beanes was captured by the British during their raid on Washington D.C. Beanes, a local official in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, had arrested two drunken British soldiers.