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This year's freshman class

Enrollment figures for this year's freshman class demonstrate the increasing economic diversity of Princeton's students. Significant improvements in the University's financial aid policies have made a Princeton education affordable for students regardless of their family financial circumstances.

Comparing the class of 2007 and the class of 2001 (the last class admitted before the improvements), this year's freshman class has:

• 182 more aid students, an increase of 42 percent.

• a 13 percent higher yield on aid students.

• 38 more low-income students, a gain of 43 percent.

• 52 percent on financial aid, compared to 38 percent in the class of 2001.

Princeton's financial aid program is considered the leading one among U.S. colleges and universities.

Source: Report on Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid presented at the Sept. 15 faculty meeting by Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel.

September 22, 2003
Vol. 93, No. 3
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Contents

Page one
• Remembering alumni who died on Sept. 11
• Dinosaur dust-up: Princeton paleontologist produces evidence for new theory on extinction
• Student sleuths hone rock-solid reasoning skills

Inside
• Humanities Council lines up roster of distinguished visitors
• Scholars join Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
• Evolving the Internet: Princeton-supported network serves as testing ground

People
• Glassblower helps shape first-rate research
• University League Nursery School has a new director
• Spotlight, briefs

Sections
• Calendar of events
• Nassau Notes
• By the numbers
 

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