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Undergraduate Admissions, Class of 2003

Admissions, Class of 2003
 Men WomenTotal
Applicants9,4398,72218,161
Admitted1,065 1,0032,068
Enrolled8657691,634
% Enrolled of Admitted 81.2% 76.7% 79%

Geographic Distribution
(admitted and registered)
Region % of Class
Mid-Atlantic27%
New England20.4%
Pacific12.9%
South16.5%
Midwest9.9%
Mountain/Central5.0%
Non-U.S.8.3%

Secondary School Education
Type of School Number of Students % of Class
Non-Public School55634%
Public School 1078 66%
Total 1634  

 

In a 1672 sermon, Thomas Shepard (A.B. 1653) bewailed the dearth of lower-level preparatory institutions: "O that inferiour Schools were every where so setled [sic] and encouraged as that the Colledge (which the Lord hath made to be a Spring of Blessing to the Land) might not now languish for want of a sufficient supply of young ones from thence!"

 

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