To our readers,

Welcome to The Daily Princetonian’s fourth annual senior survey. Our team has spent months diligently analyzing responses from 501 seniors.

Many of the statistics within this project represent information to which the wider University community has never been privy. In some sense, the yearly survey illustrates the most comprehensive and thorough portrait of the graduating class as possible.

Our survey was conducted over a period of 29 days from March 10 to April 7, 2025. On several of these days, The Daily Princetonian emailed a Google Form to all members of the Class of 2025 included in the Residential College Student Facebook as of March 10 — a total of 1,308 people. 501 students responded, yielding a 38.3 percent response rate.

Every question on the survey was optional. On select sensitive inquiries, respondents could explicitly decline to answer. Although responses were fully anonymous, emails were collected on submission to verify that respondents were truly members of the Class of 2025. Emails were then separated from the responses and discarded before any analysis was conducted. Multiple submissions were disabled through Google’s features.

To protect respondents’ anonymity, only select members of our Data team accessed the raw numbers, and none made any effort to identify individual seniors. Further, we collected and analyzed all data on Google accounts unaffiliated with the University.

Our team exercised discretion when presenting the data, carefully examining the implications of various tabulations and striving to ensure privacy at every juncture. As all of our queries were optional, many questions garnered sample sizes one to two percent smaller than the overall respondent pool. In our narratives, “respondent,” “senior,” “student,” or any comparable phrase refers to those who answered a given question.

We did not calculate the significance test results of data points drawing from two or more questions, nor did we make any attempt to alter the weight of various demographic cohorts to more accurately match the complete Class of 2025.

On certain cross-analyses of multiple student groups (ex. Expected income after graduation by Major), certain groups were small enough that we considered it a breach of privacy to show this distribution for groups that had a low number of respondents. In this example, certain departments with less than five respondents were removed as one could deduce an individual’s expected income.

Thank you for taking the time to read and interrogate our work. The senior survey is meant to serve as a collaborative reflection, initiating dialogue for the greater Princeton community while preserving the stories of this great class. We also hope that it is, and continues to be, a whole lot of fun.

Best,

Vincent Etherton ’26 and Alexa Wingate ’27

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