Admissions Stats for Class of 2011

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<p>The Harvard News Office has released admissions stats for Class of 2011:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/04.05/99-admissions.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/04.05/99-admissions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>A few highlights:</p>

<p>2058 out of 22,955 (just under 9%) admitted. With 861 admitted early, that works out to an RD admit rate of under 5.5%.</p>

<p>26% eligible for HFAI (available to families with incomes below $80,000).</p>

<p>50.5% women; 10.7% African American; 19.6% Asian American; 10.1% Latino; 1.5% Native American.</p>

<p>27% from mid-Atlantic; 20% from western and mountain states; 17% from New England; 16% from the south; 11% from mid-west; 10% from U.S. territories and abroad. (101% total presumably due to rounding.)</p>

<p>P.S., good luck everyone!</p>

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<p>5.5%?!
That's insane.</p>

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<p>do they have a breakdown of the income figures of the applicants?</p>

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<p>875 were admitted early, out of 4008, not 861.</p>

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<p>actually it works out to be 6.24%...did you remember to subtract the 4000 from the total applicant number?</p>

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<p>huh. what are the chances that I am one of the 44 asians from the midwest who got in? I don't even want to know how many of those are EA admits. ><</p>

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<p>^Huh? Where did you get that from? They didn't give that specific information in the article. You can't calculate that from the given info.</p>

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<p>"Records were set for the percentages of African Americans (10.7 percent), Asian Americans (19.6 percent), Latinos (10.1 percent), and Native Americans (1.5 percent). "</p>

<p>Do they mean a record LOW for asians? According the H website, the class of 2010 is 21% asian.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/counselors/stats/index.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/counselors/stats/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>But the fact that Harvard, an institution that once represented blueblood power, is now becoming so economically diverse is truly great.</p>

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<p>TellETubE: I think we should take into consideration that not 100% of the admitted people choose to matriculate. That would explain it, because the record refers to the admitted pool, not to the class that will actually attend Harvard.</p>

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<p>ah you're definitely right. too early for me :) so now i love the big H even more for not being deceitful like i thought</p>

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<p>I know you can't do that, but just assume that "Asian" and "Midwest" are independent.</p>

<p>.196 * .11 * 2058 = 44.3</p>

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<p>Maybe I am wrong but the way that press release reads is that they are sending out 2058 notices of admission, or 9% of the pool, today, i.e., that is in addition to any who were admitted early action.</p>

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TellETubE: I think we should take into consideration that not 100% of the admitted people choose to matriculate. That would explain it, because the record refers to the admitted pool, not to the class that will actually attend Harvard.

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<p>It may not be 100%, but I'm sure its damn close to it and as close as any college will get.</p>

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<p>Yes, I agree.</p>

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<p>For the Harvard class of 2009, the yield was 80%.</p>

<p>Source: Harvard Gazette (<a href="http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/05.20/03-yield.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/05.20/03-yield.html&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

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<p>drusba, the 2058 is both regular and early admits...no way harvard admitted almost 2900 students.</p>

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<p>^I agree with the above. In past years, Harvard's yield rate (the percentage of accepted applicants who accept the offer of admission) had been around 80%.</p>

<p>80% of 2058 is 1646 which is about the size of Harvard's freshman class.</p>