Acceptances or Matriculants by Location

<p>Does anyone have this information?</p>

<p>I'm guessing the information won't be out for a while -- the waitlist info has to be sorted and everything.</p>

<p>Yep, but what about for the Class of 2009?</p>

<p>They usually publish the state-by-state numbers annually, but I didn't see it last year..</p>

<p><a href="http://vpf-web.harvard.edu/budget/factbook/03-04/undergrad_residence_4a.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://vpf-web.harvard.edu/budget/factbook/03-04/undergrad_residence_4a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://vpf-web.harvard.edu/budget/factbook/02-03/undergrad_residence_4a.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://vpf-web.harvard.edu/budget/factbook/02-03/undergrad_residence_4a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://vpf-web.harvard.edu/budget/factbook/01-02/undergrad_residence_4a.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://vpf-web.harvard.edu/budget/factbook/01-02/undergrad_residence_4a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>massachusetts is wicked smaht!</p>

<p>massachussetts is crazy, that state alone has like how many of the top 100 schools in the world?</p>

<p>Massachusetts does indeed have a lot of smart people, but their numbers are also increased by Harvard's stated policy of giving an extra boost to local applicants, particularly Cambridge residents. Also, sons and daughters of Harvard faculty may also get an extra look, although I'm less certain about that one.</p>

<p>Coureur:</p>

<p>As for most university, being a facbrat is the greatest hook. I think Harvard only gives a boost to Cambridge, not surrounding districts, but I could be wrong. Last year, it admitted 11 students from Cambridge (1 went to Stanford instead), but that was a record. I do not believe as many were admitted this year. But students from Lexington, Newton and Brookline can be found at top colleges through NE.</p>

<p>Harvard must give a boost to all of MA; how else could one justify such dominance from such a small state?</p>

<p>Massachusetts is the ONLY state of the fifty United States in which more high school graduates go on to privately operated colleges than to government-operated colleges. (That's partly because ZooMass was founded late, and is not highly desired to this day by MA students.) In other words, Massachusetts students work hard to prepare themselves for matriculation at private colleges, and it shows in their matriculation statistics at selective colleges all over the country. I think MA is also the state that usually has the highest qualifying PSAT score for being a National Merit Scholar--things are just more competitive over in MA. </p>

<p>Moreover, while MA certainly has a lower population than CA, it is not a low-population state, but somewhere in the top fifteen states by population. Millions of people living in one state makes for a lot of college attendees each year.</p>

<p>To add to Tokenadult's post:</p>

<p>Many students from the NE like to attend college in the NE, so a lot of students from MA are likely to apply to Harvard. Last year, our school had 11 students admitted to Harvard and only 1 turned it down (for Stanford). MA has some terrific school districts (as well as some bad ones) and a wealth of private boarding and day schools: Andover, Milton, Concord, Roxbury Latin, BU Academy, Middlesex, Deerfield, Groton, to name but a few, as well as Boston Latin which is sending 27 students to Harvard this year. Their students apply to Harvard in droves.</p>

<p>That's true. MA also has a lot of large private colleges--BU, BC come to mind--that have a lot of in-state students.</p>

<p>now did that map include grad students in the numbers?</p>

<p>No, it says Harvard College Undergraduates by State.</p>