Is my father correct?

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<p>This is not your father’s Princeton:</p>

<p>[Princeton</a> University - Freshman class reflects commitment to access and affordability](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S28/50/00O59/index.xml?section=topstories]Princeton”>http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S28/50/00O59/index.xml?section=topstories)</p>

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This year, 768 freshmen, or 58 percent of the class, are receiving financial aid, with a total of $27 million in scholarships. The average grant is $35,157. The incoming class includes 208 students from low-income backgrounds, or nearly 16 percent of freshmen. </p>

<p>The class of 2014 is the 13th to matriculate since the University initiated significant policy changes in undergraduate financial aid – including a pioneering “no-loan” policy – to make a Princeton education more affordable to a broader range of students. In the class of 2001, the last class to enter before the aid improvements, 38 percent of the students were on financial aid with an average grant of $15,064, and students from low-income backgrounds made up 8 percent of the class.</p>

<p>The class of 2014 includes the largest number of students from minority backgrounds in Princeton’s history, with a total of 490 students from American minorities representing 37.3 percent of the class. </p>

<p>The class of 2014 also includes 141 international students, constituting 10.7 percent of the class. The international students represent 47 countries.</p>

<p>The class of 2014 is the third freshman class to be evenly balanced in terms of gender.

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