Breakdown

The class of 1986 began as a demand for 30,000 application forms. Of the forms sent out, 8,320 actually materialized as applications signed and sealed. Admission was granted to 1,852 of the applicants, and some 1,053 accepted. The summer saw a few attritions, for one reason and another, and 1,046 students actually matriculated in the fall.

There are 453 women in the class of 1986, and 593 men. Minority representation includes 59 black students, 10 Native American students, 10 Hispanic students, and 13 North Country students from disadvantaged situations.

The class boasts at least one representative from every state in the union except South Dakota, Idaho, Mississippi, and Nevada. New York can claim the most (191), and Massachusetts is a close second (169). New Jersey, Connecticut, California, and Pennsylvania each contribute generously, followed somewhat less generously by New Hampshire, Ohio, Maine, Illinois, Virginia, and Maryland. Florida, Texas, Colorado, Vermont, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Michigan appear in the class still in double-digit numbers, and the other states are in the single digits. There are 20 foreign students in the class.

The majority of this year's pea-greens came to Dartmouth from public schools 630. Of the 416 who came from private schools, 340 attended independent private schools and 76 parochial schools.

So there.

Edward Shanahan: new dean