The Princeton program began in the 1986-1987 academic year with nine seminars.
"The key issue [then] was providing students with the opportunity to work in small courses with regular faculty on a focused, but accessible topics," says Hank Dobin, associate dean of the college at Princeton.
The program has grown rapidly to include 65 seminars with an average of 11 to 13 students in each.
Dobin estimates that out of a class of 1150 students, approximately 750 take a freshman seminar either in the fall or spring. Some take one both semesters.
Most of these students are among the 900 B.A. candidates, he says, because the heavier first-year requirements of engineering and science students leave them less room for seminars.
Supply almost perfectly fits demand--less than 30 students were not accepted to their top two choice seminars this fall, Dobin says.
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