A record low 6.9% of applicants accepted to Harvard this year

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<p>"A record-low 6.9 percent of applicants have been accepted to the Harvard College Class of 2014.</p>

<p>The coveted fat envelopes will be mailed today to 2,110 students, the Office of Admissions announced earlier yesterday. Applicants will also receive their decisions via e-mail after 5 p.m. today.</p>

<p>Applications increased by about 5 percent this year, topping 30,000 for the first time. While the acceptance rate dropped by 0.1 percent, 64 more students received a ‘yes’ from Harvard in the initial round of decisions this year.</p>

<p>More than 60 percent of the accepted students are eligible to receive need-based financial aid from Harvard, with the average award totaling $40,000. "
Acceptance</a> Rate Falls to New Low | The Harvard Crimson</p>

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<p>Well that’s reassuring. I hope housing doesn’t get more crowded!</p>

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<p>I found this statement in that article to be more encouraging than I might have expected for waitlistees…</p>

<p>"An undisclosed number of students will be sent letters today telling them that they have been wait-listed. Fitzsimmons said that “we hope very much to take a substantial number” of students off the waitlist in May and June.</p>

<p>Fitzsimmons urged these students to provide the admissions office with additional information for the upcoming round of waitlist deliberations.</p>

<p>“If something good has happened to them since they applied, we would love to hear about it…from them and maybe from their counselors and teachers,” he said.</p>

<p>Probably best not to make too much of this, and yes, fall in love with your other good choices if you are a waitlistee, but still, if there is new information Harvard should know about you, make sure to bring it to their attention.</p>