statistics (some very predictable, some quite surprising) from the crimson’s 2014 senior survey:

Graduating seniors spent their entire college career with Barack Obama in the White House, and they are overwhelmingly supportive of their president and his policies. Eighty percent of eligible respondents voted to reelect Obama in 2012, and now, even as his national favorability ratings hover in the mid-40s, Obama can still count on a 72 percent approval rating among surveyed Harvard seniors. And while Obama�s overhaul of the national health care system faces approval ratings in the low 40s among the American public, the Affordable Care Act enjoys a 66 percent favorability rating within the Class of 2014.

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59 percent of surveyed seniors characterized themselves as liberal or very liberal. That number, however, drops significantly for seniors going into finance, among which only a quarter said they lean leftward.

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Forty-two percent of seniors said they have sought some form of mental health support in college. By way of comparison, two recent surveys have found that about 10 percent of college students seek help for mental health issues. […] Seniors� satisfaction with counseling services for mental health issues varied widely. Three quarters of surveyed seniors who sought help from at least one off-campus professional said they were satisfied or very satisfied with the help they received, compared to just 42 percent of those who went to UHS for mental health support. UHS also had the highest disapproval rating among the four listed counseling services, with 37 percent of respondents who went to UHS saying they were dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with the help they received.

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When asked about their personal experiences with sexual violence, 12 percent of women said they had been sexually assaulted at Harvard, compared to 2 percent of men. Just 16 percent of these victims reported their assault.

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Working men were more than twice as likely than working women to report that they would be going into finance, nearly twice as likely to say they would be entering the technology or engineering industry, and about half as likely to say they were going into the public service or nonprofit sector. Consulting, however, attracted a nearly equal percentage of working men and women. Men and women also reported unequal compensation. Across all industries, 19 percent of employed men said they will make a starting salary of $90,000 or more, compared to 4 percent of employed women. A plurality of women entering the technology or engineering sectors reported that they will make between $50,000 and $69,999, while a plurality of their male counterparts said they will make between $90,000 and $109,999. None of the women going into finance said they would earn $90,000 or more, compared to 29 percent of men in finance.