In general, large enrollment undergraduate courses have a wider range of students with varied educational, socio-economical and ethnic backgrounds. In order to understand how differences within student cohorts may influence their engagement with omics data, we performed an in-depth analysis of students previous experiences and social identities. Students' previous experiences (Table ) were measured prior to the course and workshops, and broadly reflect similar trends between the primary and secondary cohorts of students. Significant differences in students' previous experiences based on students' social identities (Table ) were also identified in the primary cohort, which was the only cohort with a large enough sample size to complete these analyses.