ENROLLMENT DROPS

UNDERGRADUATE enrollment for the present academic year is 2912 men, a slight drop of nineteen from the total last fall. The freshman class, expected to be the third in Dartmouth, history with 800 or more members, came close but ended up with 799 men. The sophomore class of 795 is by far the largest second-year class ever registered. Juniors number 645, and the senior class of 605 is the smallest of the past five years. Sixty-one men from the Classes of 1956 through 1960 are also registered as undergraduates.

Total enrollment of full-time students this fall is 3069, a drop of 31 from last year. There are 118 part-time students, bringing the overall enrollment total to 3187, down sixteen from last year. Tuck School has the usual top enrollment among the associated schools, with 161. Second-year Thayer students number nineteen, Tuck-Thayer students fourteen, and regular Medical School students 47. The Medical School also has two special students and 69 part-time, postdoctoral students for a total enrollment of 118.

The geographical breakdown of the student body this year shows men from all fifty states, the District of Columbia, the Canal Zone, and thirty foreign countries. The top dozen states are New York 592, Massachusetts 350, New Jersey 288, Connecticut 206, Pennsylvania 189, Ohio 172, Illinois 159, New Hampshire 143, California 128, Minnesota 75, Vermont 72, and Michigan 65.

Nine students from Canada, eight from France, and five from Venezuela comprise the largest delegations from outside the United States.