The results of Brown’s 2016 “unscientific” senior survey are in, and they’re rather… amusing.
Among many fascinating things, we learn that some 21% of Brown seniors have taken a shot of alcohol on each floor of the Sciences Library’s 15 floors while at school; the same percentage attended a naked party; and a whopping 73% of them stole food from a campus eatery. Oh, and some 43% of students think their grades are in the top quartile of their class.
When it comes to sexual orientation, the Ivy League has been something of a revelation for our blooming adults. Indeed, fewer students come out of Brown identifying as “heterosexual” than they did before they started, with 7% of respondents reporting a switch away from heterosexuality to categories such as gay, bisexual, pansexual and “questioning.” The results of the annual senior survey, completed online by 609 students from April 19 to May 9, were published in The Brown Daily Herald.
Finally, nearly 1/4 of white seniors, 24%, declare having felt “marginalized” because of their race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status over the course of their studies—a bit surprising coming from a demographic that is typically excluded from notions of racial oppression.
It’s worth noting that the data set neither specified the gender, racial, and socio-economic backgrounds of respondents, nor adjusted for self-selection bias.
