Good morning!
Yesterday evening, prospective members of Princeton’s Great Class of 2027 received admissions offers from the University. Princeton once again refrained from releasing admissions data, including acceptance rates and standardized test scores for admitted students, a decision first made in December 2021. "We do not want to discourage prospective students from applying to Princeton because of its selectivity," Dean Karen Richardson wrote in the 'Prince' in 2022.
Opinion columnists offered a variety of theories for why the University may have made the decision not to release admissions statistics last year. Then Community Opinion Editor and current Editor-in-Chief Rohit Narayanan suggested that the University was making a good-faith effort to avoid glorifying selectivity. Senior Columnist Mohan Setty-Charity argued that the University may have stopped releasing data to stop providing ammunition to groups opposing affirmative action. In response to the University's decision, Head Opinion Editor Abigail Rabieh noted that not releasing an acceptance rate may do little to ease applicant stress.
With affirmative action likely to be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court later this year, the demographic information about the Class of 2027 may reveal what steps the University has taken to preempt the ruling. President Christopher Eisgruber has promised to pursue a variety of strategies to preserve the diversity of the class.
READ THE STORY HERE →
Analysis by Michelle Miao
|