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2009-10 Fellowship Applicant Statistics

 - 149 applicants applied for 2009-2010 PP55 Fellowships
-  126 applicants were from the class of 2009, representing 84.6% of the applicant pool and 11% of the  graduating class
-  15.4% of the applicant pool represents class years other than 2009
-  76% of the applicant pool were female
-  In total, applicants represented 28 different majors
- The departments of history, WWS and psychology were most common, representing 35% of the entire applicant pool, 38.1% of applicants from the Class of 2009
-  16.8% of the applicant pool had engineering or hard science degrees

2009-10 PP55 Fellows Statistics 

-  There are a total of 46 fellows
-  34 of the fellows are female (76%) and 12 are male (26%)
-  37 are from the class of 2009, which is about 80% of the fellows and 3% of the class
-  Fellows represent 19 different majors
- The most common major was Politics, representing about 13%, followed by Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Psychology, History, and the Woodrow Wilson School at almost 8% each, and 22% of the fellows majored in the hard sciences and engineering