Welcome to The Daily Princetonian’s inaugural survey of first-year students. The data and stories you’ll find here, which span over a year of planning, execution, analysis, and editing, represent the collective efforts of dozens of ‘Prince’ staffers and hundreds of students in the Great Class of 2024.

This far-reaching project seeks to better understand the intricacies of the University’s diverse student body. Though Nassau Hall publicly reports some of the demographic and academic information contained within, other data, such as respondents’ experiences with sex and alcohol, are difficult — if not impossible — to find. This website likely includes data never before gathered on a first-year class at Princeton.

We invite you to browse our findings with a discerning eye. By reading our narratives about DEMOGRAPHICS, ACADEMICS, LIFESTYLE, and VIEWS, you’ll embark on a guided tour through our survey’s most relevant findings. If you’d rather examine our numbers yourself, EXPLORE THE DATA in over 140 interactive charts and graphs.

The information contained within, synthesized from over 70,000 individual pieces of data, reveals a portrait of our community — a tale that explores what our University is and may become, and the people who define it.