Ticket distribution:
- 3100 tickets for students
- 500 for staff and faculty
- 300 for donors and VIPs
More than 115 members of the media attended resulting in the following stats:
TV media coverage:
- Total National Viewership: 1,026,868*
- Total National Publicity Value: $66,951.79*
- Total Local Viewership: 3,764,638
- Total Local Market Publicity Value: $272,209.17
* Total National Viewership is the sum of all national cable viewership and all New York national viewership
Print newspaper coverage:
- LOCAL: 49
- STATE: 32
- NATIONAL: 97
National (USA Today, CNN, Wall Street Journal, etc.): 47
CA (LA Times, San Diego Union Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News,
FrontPage magazine): 9
CO (Denver Post): 3
D.C. (Washington Post, Washington Times): 5
GA (Atlanta Journal-Constitution): 3
IL (Chicago Tribune): 1
LA (New Orleans Times Picayune): 2
MA (Boston.com): 1
MN (Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press): 4
MO (St. Louis Post-Dispatch): 2
NY (NY Times, NY Post): 5
OH (Examiner, Cleveland Plain Dealer): 2
OR (Oregonian): 2
RI (GoLocal Prov): 1
TX (Austin American-Statesman, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News): 7
WA (Seattle Times, Bellingham Herald): 3
South Africa (iAfrica.com): 1
Canada (MetroNews Canada, Canada Free Press): 2
UK (BBC, The Guardian): 2
