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ELIJAH HUREWITZ-RAVITCH, VIA WANG & AIDEN ZHOU
DATA: City’s voter turnout slightly higher than last municipal election

The News compiled seven maps and graphs that help explain the results of this year’s local elections. Incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker won 84.3 percent of the vote in New Haven, as turnout rose slightly from 2023.

November 9, 2025

AIDEN ZHOU
The class of 2029, by the numbers

The News surveyed first years about their lives before Yale and expectations for college.

August 29, 2025

WILL FORBES
DATA: Where do Yale athletes come from?

The News analyzed public roster data from 32 of Yale’s varsity sports teams, illuminating where in the United States and the world coaches are finding Yale’s student-athletes.

April 24, 2025

AIDEN ZHOU
DATA: Yale Men’s Basketball, by the numbers

As the Yale men’s basketball team wraps up the 2024–25 season, explore the metrics behind their success.

March 27, 2025

ISOBEL MCCLURE
DATA: Curious about studying abroad? Trends show Yalies take their studies worldwide

The News analyzed the Office of International and Summer Programs’ data on Yale student experiences studying abroad.

March 27, 2025

PAMOGBEBOR
DATA: The class of 2028 in numbers

Here’s what 541 first years told the News about their backgrounds and experiences.

August 30, 2024

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.

December 5, 2023

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.

October 25, 2023

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.

August 30, 2023

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.

February 2, 2023

LEON LUFKIN & ISAAC YU
DATA: Yale’s Most Popular Courses

In the third installment of a project last seen in the spring of 2020, the News analyzed the classes that are the most shopped and trending day to day.

January 24, 2022