Black, Hispanic, Asian privilege: Princeton announced its 2025 class 68% are non-white (black, Asian, Hispanic and other races)
Apr 20, 2021
According to the most recent government census, around 60 percent of the country is white, 18.5 percent is Hispanic, 13.4 percent is black and 5.9 percent is Asian.
Princeton announced its 2025 class on Thursday; 68% are non-white (black, Asian, Hispanic and other races)
It means the remaining 32% are white – some 479 students out of 1,498
Overall, 52% are women and 48% are men
When applying that to the racial groups, around 500 are men of color and 500 are women of color, 229 are white men and 250 are white women
Children of Princeton alumni make up 10% of the new intake
In 2019, 44% were white and in 2020, 39% were white
Harvard has taken in 60% non-white students (18% black, 27% was Asian American and 13.3% as Latin)
White students were still the biggest group by far with around 40%
Brown’s intake is 55% students who described themselves as of color
Dartmouth is only Ivy League accepting a majority of white students over non-white students this year; the school’s 2025 class is split 48 percent non-white and 52 percent white
