Dive Brief:

• Princeton University’s freshman class is its most diverse ever, with 43% of the 1,313 students coming from non-white racial and ethnic backgrounds.
• The class also set a record for having the most low-income students ever — 290, or 22% of the students.
• Scholarships for the Class of 2018 total $33.7 million, with an average grant of $43,846.

Dive Insight:

Princeton’s announcement on this is interesting because it illustrates how a discussion of race can be tricky. The announcement says that 43% are students are “from various racial and ethnic backgrounds,” though technically that statement would apply to 100% of the class. A university spokesman clarified to the Times of Trenton, saying that diversity was represented by “students who have self-identified as people of color, including biracial and multiracial students.” Other stats on the freshman class: 769 students receive financial aid, 155 are first-generation college students, 147 are from 50 non-U.S. countries, and 48.4% are women. Princeton’s total undergrad enrollment is 5,230.