$22.6 billion: Size of Harvard’s endowment at the end of June 2004.

$34.9 billion: Size of Harvard’s endowment in June 2007.

$12.3 billion: The reported increase in the endowment during the Class of 2008’s time at Harvard.

19,750: Number of applicants to the Class of 2008.

27,268: Number of applicants to the Class of 2012.

10.3%: Admissions rate for Class of 2008.

7.1%: Admissions rate for Class of 2012.

512: Number of members of the Class of 2008 who likely wouldn’t be admitted if they were applying for the Class of 2012.

$41,675: 2004-2005 cost to attend Harvard College.

$47,215: 2008-2009 cost of attendance.

22%: Increase in Harvard’s financial aid budget as part of a 2007 initiative to reduce expected contributions from middle- and upper-class families.

375: Number of undergrads who enrolled in Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology” in fall 2004.

846: Number of undergrads who enrolled in the class in spring 2006.

1,950,000: Approximate number of Web site hits on thecrimson.com at the height of a plagiarism scandal surrounding student novelist Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 and her novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got A Life.”

$62.76: Average price listed for a used copy of the book on Amazon.com at the end of May 2006, after the book was recalled.

5 million: Number of meals that Harvard University Dining Services serves annually, according to its Web site.

129.9: Inches of precipitation measured in Cambridge over the past four academic years.

46.3: Average temperature (degrees Fahrenheit) in Cambridge during the four academic years that the Class of 2008 was on campus.

-1.3: Coldest temperature recorded in Cambridge during the Class of 2008’s time on campus.

2: Number of years former graduate student Alexander Pring-Wilson will serve in prison after he pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the stabbing of a Cambridge cook.

$16,000: Amount that the UC spent on its 2005 Springfest Afterparty.

200: Approximate number of students who attended the party.

$50 million: Amount dedicated to increasing the representation of female scientists following an uproar over former President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments on the innate differences between the sexes.

3: Number of people who served as Harvard’s president in the past four years.

77: Age of Derek C. Bok, Harvard’s 25th president, when he completed an encore year as interim president following the Summers debacle.

0: Number of female Harvard presidents before 2007.

750: Number of people nominated to be Harvard’s 28th president by University affiliates.