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.
In 1887 the Ministry of War, after consultation with a specially-appointed commission, adopted what it was to call an official version of the song, which was written into the Constitutions of the Fourth and Fifth Republics (1946 and 1958 respectively).