Princeton’s yield of students accepting offers of admission for the Class of 2018 was 69.2 percent, up slightly from 68.7 percent a year ago. Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said the results showed “quite a lot of faith in how Princeton is handling” an outbreak of nine meningitis B cases associated with the University. At the graduate school, applications and total yield showed small drops from last year; the yield for admitted Ph.D. students continued a decline from 50 percent five years ago to 43 percent this year. “Admission continues to be highly competitive, and [there are] some trends we need to keep watching and addressing,” said Dean Sanjeev Kulkarni. He said an improving economy may be having an impact on applications and yield as more students receive “compelling job offers.”
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Kai L. Chan *08
8 Years AgoShort End of the Stick
Students of Asian descent at Princeton (and elsewhere in the United States) seem to get the short end of the stick on campus, as highlighted by two articles in the June 4 issue. With respect to the racial composition of the school (“Undergraduate Yield Up, Grad Yield Down”), Asians are touted by school administrators as “minorities” in order to add to the diversity count of the class. Yet it is also well known that administrators place a higher bar for Asian students in admission to college, where they have to outperform not only their minority peers on entrance examinations (by large margins) but also whites (as highlighted by the research of sociology professor Thomas Espenshade *72) to have the same chance of admission.
And on campus, even though the largest single racial minority group is Asians, discussions about race, discrimination, stereotypes, etc. never seem to include them (“Student Dispatch: Encounters With Racism, Captured on a Whiteboard”); yet there are many negative prejudices that the group has to deal with. Too bad the whiteboard campaign did not include an Asian student holding a sign proclaiming: “I am not a boring, math geek with tiger parents” or “I get the downsides but not the upsides of being a minority.”