University Housing Turnout#

Cambridge is home to three Universities (in order of total enrollment): Harvard, MIT, Lesley

Harvard College#

Harvard First Year Houses#

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Harvard Undergraduate Houses#

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Harvard Grad Dorms#

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Harvard University Housing#

Harvard University Housing is separate from the grad dorms and undergrad house system. They rent out apartments to graduate students. A map of their properties can be found here

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Harvard Law School Dorms#

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All Harvard Dorms/Housing#

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Harvard Undergraduate Total turnout#

Because the harvard undegraduate population nearly entirely lives in the house system we can assess the turnout of Harvard Undergraduates as a whole based on the enrollment numbers available from the Harvard Factbook.

Unfortunately the breakdown of international or US citizen is currently only available for 2022/2023. But based on some very cursory googling it seem that each year has 10-15% international enrollment. So for the following analysis we will assume 12.5% international undergraduates at Harvard.

The big takeaway here is that Harvard Undergraduate Registration numbers have steadily declined over the past decade, down to a paltry 13% of eligible Harvard undergraduates having registered to vote. However, due to fluctuations in enrollment size and turnout percent the number of Harvard undergraduates who vote has remained at the same (low) level.

voted registered turnout enrollment us-citizens registered-percent
year
2011 34 908 0.037445 NaN NaN NaN
2012 1000 1711 0.584454 NaN NaN NaN
2013 231 2204 0.104809 6671.0 5837.125 0.377583
2014 316 1993 0.158555 6636.0 5806.500 0.343236
2015 67 1776 0.037725 6634.0 5804.750 0.305956
2016 645 2001 0.322339 6645.0 5814.375 0.344147
2017 137 1577 0.086874 6699.0 5861.625 0.269038
2018 406 1655 0.245317 6722.0 5881.750 0.281379
2019 96 1255 0.076494 6716.0 5876.500 0.213562
2020 348 1238 0.281099 5212.0 4560.500 0.271461
2021 56 845 0.066272 7095.0 6208.125 0.136112
2022 163 842 0.193587 7178.0 6280.750 0.134060
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MIT#

MIT Undergraduate Dorms#

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MIT Graduate Housing#

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All MIT Dorms/Housing#

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MIT Undergraduate Total turnout#

TODO

This should be possible to calculate using the information from https://registrar.mit.edu/statistics-reports/enrollment-statistics-year# But has yet to be implemented here.

Lesley#

We cannot calculate total turnout of Lesley students as not all students live on campus (78% of first years per https://lesley.edu/life-at-lesley/campus-life/housing). So we cannot calculate the correct percentage of international students who live in the dorms.

Lesley Undergraduates#

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