The Yale Daily News has published a survey taken by the university of the incoming freshman class, Class of 2028, and some of the statistics are fascinating. So I will just list some for today’s post.

1. 51% female, 47% male, 2% something else.
2. 55% White, 30% Asian, 13% Black. 20% Hispanic.
3. 69% straight, 14% lesbian/gay/queer, 12% bisexual
4. 2% transgender
5. 19% first generation college; 17% Yale legacy
6. 34% “extremely religious”, 4% “not at all religious”, remainder in between. Surprise??
7. 57% from suburbs, 30% from cities, 13% rural
8. Of domestic students, 48% speak only English, 44% two languages, the remainder more than two.
9. 56% getting financial aid
10. 43% from families making more than $150k per year, 44% from less, remainder don’t know.
11. 53% call their family upper middle income or upper income
12. 67% have parent with a graduate degree; another 15% with a bachelor’s degree; others no degrees.
13. 43% had early admission; only 2% off waiting list.
14. 56% now planning for a STEM major, 43% social sciences, 21% humanities
15. 58% public high school, 24% private high school, 10% religious school
16. 8% boarding school
17. 95% calculus or better in high school, including 21% beyond calculus 2
18. Median SAT scores about 1520-1540 for all groups, irrespective of income, race, type of high school, etc. A little lower (1480) for recruited athletes.
19. 70% single, 30% in some sort of relationship, 16% in post high school broken relationship
20. 35% have not had their first kiss, but 36% have had sex
21. 65% of those who have had sex have had one partner, 18% two, the rest more.
22. 51% drink alcohol, 21% have smoked tobacco, 31% marijuana, 5% hallucinogens, 1% cocaine
23. Most view themselves as neither extroverts, nor introverts, but in the middle
24. As to politics, 29% are “very left”, 38% somewhat left, only 9% somewhat or very right.
25. 18% have a favorable opinion of Biden, 50% a favorable opinion of Harris, 2% a favorable opinion of Trump. 85% have an unfavorable opinion of Trump.
26. 49% favor affirmative action programs, 18% are against them.

That is pretty much it for the survey. I found it interesting. Would like to see something similar for other universities. Don’t know if they exist or not.