2025 Fall Street Week concluded on Friday, with students in the Classes of 2026 and 2027 seeking spots in three of six Bicker clubs and three of five sign-in clubs. Thirty-six students were offered spots in three Bicker clubs — Cap and Gown Club, Ivy Club, and Tower Club.
Tiger Inn and Cottage Club did not hold Fall Street Week events, nor did Cannon Dial Elm Club, which held Bicker last fall.
“At the time Cannon announced the decision not to hold Fall Bicker, the [Graduate Interclub Council (GICC)] was encouraging Bicker clubs to forgo Fall Bicker in an attempt to support the open clubs,” Cannon President Scott Becker wrote to The Daily Princetonian.
The GICC did not respond to requests for comment before publication.
This was also the first Street Week in decades without Cloister Inn, which abruptly announced over the summer it would pause operations for the next two to three years with the promise of “hefty renovations.” The fate of former Cloister members was not immediately clear, although Quad and Colonial had both promised to accept anyone from the sinking club over the summer.
Terrace Club and Charter Club, which rapidly filled up during this spring’s Street Week, also did not participate.
The number of students vying for Cap and Gown, usually a popular Bicker option, sharply declined to 56 students this fall from 90 last year. Instead, Tower was the most popular Bicker club, accepting 15 new members out of 65 participants, compared to 44 last year.
Notably, during the last Fall Street Week, 195 upperclassmen bickered one of the four Bicker clubs holding street week events. This year, only 162 upperclassmen bickered Tower, Cap and Gown, or Ivy.
The Class of 2027, which welcomed 1,366 students in August 2023, is notably smaller than the Class of 2026, which had 1,500 students when they arrived in August 2022.
Tower welcomed 10 juniors and five seniors, the most among the Bicker clubs that held Street week events. Tower’s new members add to the 143 Bicker participants previously accepted in the spring. In both accepting fewer members and having more Bicker participants, Tower’s fall Bicker acceptance rate decreased to approximately 23.1 percent this year from 50 percent last year.
Tower’s acceptance rate for men was 12.5 percent, while the acceptance rate for women was 36 percent. Ivy, meanwhile, demonstrated the opposite trend by gender, with an acceptance rate for men of 31.5 percent and an acceptance rate for women of 18.1 percent.
Overall, Ivy’s fall Bicker acceptance rate increased from 17.1 percent last year to 24.3 percent this year. Ivy accepted 10 of its 41 Bicker participants this fall, up from six members last year. Ivy’s new members add to the 79 Bicker participants previously accepted in the spring.
Cap and Gown, meanwhile, welcomed 11 new members, six juniors and five seniors, joining the 100 members previously admitted in the spring.
The acceptance rate for seniors was 41.6 percent, while the acceptance rate for juniors was 13.9 percent. Overall, Cap’s fall Bicker acceptance rate increased from 13.3 percent last year to approximately 19.6 percent this year.
Head Audience Editor and Senior News Writer Justus Wilhoit ’26 is a member of Cap and has recused himself from reporting on the club.
Quadrangle Club, meanwhile, accepted 80 people via sign-in. Sofia Marina ’26, the club’s president, told the ‘Prince’ that she expected seven former Cloister members to join “once the dust settles.” Cloister’s membership has hovered in the low dozens over the last several years amid financial difficulties.
“We really sympathize with the churn that Cloister members have gone through since its closure for renovations, and have reserved space for any former Cloister members [who] would like to join Quad,” Marina said in a statement.
Officers from Colonial, meanwhile, did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the ‘Prince.’ The number of students accepted to the club was unclear. Initial Street Week numbers for sign-in clubs do not necessarily represent the final total of students choosing to sign contracts. Students have until Sept. 28 at noon to enroll in their club choices.
Hayk Yengibaryan is a head News editor, senior Sports writer, and education director for the ‘Prince.’ He is from Glendale, Calif. and typically covers breaking news and profiles. He can be reached at hy5161[at]princeton.edu
Justus Wilhoit is a head Audience editor and senior News writer for the ‘Prince.’ He is from Kenosha, Wis. and typically covers Princeton’s eating clubs and co-ops, identity and student life, and the Trump administration.
Please send any corrections to corrections[at]dailyprincetonian.com.
Editor’s note: This piece has been updated to clarify the approximate membership of Cloister.
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