MOLLY REINMANN ‘Country club’ sports and ‘pay-to-play’ pipelines — does athletic recruitment favor certain Yale applicants? A News survey and analysis of the backgrounds of Yale’s recruited athlete population found an overrepresentation of white and private-school students relative to the overall Yale College population.
LUKAS NEL DATA: Yale College trends toward graduating more STEM than humanities and arts majors In 2022, more students graduated from Yale College with degrees in science and engineering than in any year since the Office of Institutional Research began publishing data on Yale undergraduate student majors in 2000.
COLLYN ROBINSON & KHUAN-YU HALL DATA: Survey suggests Yalies support affirmative action at rates slightly higher than national average In a News survey, 67 percent of 360 Yale students, staff and faculty expressed support for race-conscious admissions, compared to roughly 60 percent of Americans per national polls.
ANIKA ARORA SETH & ÁNGELA PÉREZ ANALYSIS: The legacy of affirmative action Data from a National Bureau of Economic Research paper confirm theories that maintaining legacy preference in admissions processes hurts racial diversity, while both legacy preference and race-conscious admissions significantly benefit wealthy applicants over their lower-class peers.
LEON LUFKIN & ISAAC YU DATA: Yale’s Most Popular Courses In the third installment of a project last seen in the spring of 2020, the News analyzed the classes that are the most shopped and trending day to day.
MAXX SHEAROD IN PHOTOS: “Professional” For this project, I wanted to examine our ideas of professionalism and their origins in anti-Blackness.
