PAMOGBEBOR DATA: The class of 2028 in numbers Here’s what 541 first years told the News about their backgrounds and experiences.
MOLLY REINMANN ‘Country club’ sports and ‘pay-to-play’ pipelines — does athletic recruitment favor certain Yale applicants? A News survey and analysis of the backgrounds of Yale’s recruited athlete population found an overrepresentation of white and private-school students relative to the overall Yale College population.
LUKAS NEL DATA: Yale College trends toward graduating more STEM than humanities and arts majors In 2022, more students graduated from Yale College with degrees in science and engineering than in any year since the Office of Institutional Research began publishing data on Yale undergraduate student majors in 2000.
COLLYN ROBINSON & KHUAN-YU HALL DATA: Survey suggests Yalies support affirmative action at rates slightly higher than national average In a News survey, 67 percent of 360 Yale students, staff and faculty expressed support for race-conscious admissions, compared to roughly 60 percent of Americans per national polls.
ANIKA ARORA SETH & ÁNGELA PÉREZ ANALYSIS: The legacy of affirmative action Data from a National Bureau of Economic Research paper confirm theories that maintaining legacy preference in admissions processes hurts racial diversity, while both legacy preference and race-conscious admissions significantly benefit wealthy applicants over their lower-class peers.
CHLOE EDWARDS & GIRI VISWANATHAN IN PHOTOS: New Haven and Yale Police clear encampment on Cross Campus, no arrests made
ELLIE PARK, CHRISTINA LEE & SAMAD HAKANI IN PHOTOS: Pro-Palestine protesters erect new encampment on Cross Campus
ELLIE PARK, GIRI VISWANATHAN, CHLOE EDWARDS, CHRISTINA LEE & SAMAD HAKANI IN PHOTOS: Student protesters arrested