<p>Did I miss this? I can't find where Harvard has reported the number of applicants this year. Byerly, do you know?</p>
<p>I think you missed it.</p>
<p>According to past practice, the story should be in the Gazette either this coming Thursday or the next.</p>
<p>See, for example: <a href="http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/02.19/05-admissions.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/02.19/05-admissions.html</a></p>
<p>I guess there was about an 8% drop in the number of SCEAs. Do you think there will be an overall drop in applications? I hope so! Gives me a better chance.</p>
<p>Well, RD ups jumped over 17% last year, so I wouldn't be surprised to see a flattening-out this year.</p>
<p>I know, and the other Ivies all had increases this year so I'm HOPING it WON'T be true for Harvard too. There are too many of us this year!!!!!!!</p>
<p>All the Ivy leagues reported rather large jumps in regular decision, even schools like Yale and Princeton who saw jumps the previous year as well. I expect Harvard to be no different</p>
<p>I don't agree. </p>
<p>There is a yo-yo phenomenon involving "stategic" applicants. Often, it appears, the current year's numbers are in reaction to what happened the year before.</p>
<p>Last year, the Yale numbers were, in fact, absolutely flat, after a jump the previous year with a move to the common app; this year they are up more modestly. </p>
<p>Two years ago, Princeton saw a huge drop, (as Yale and Stanford made much-publicized moves away from binding ED) before recovering smartly - due in large measure to the adoption of the common admit form and the online application, last year.</p>
<p>I hope your right but I'm worried that H applications will be higher since all the other schools are. I WANT the numbers to be low.</p>
<p>Who knows ... I may be proven wrong very shortly, but I'll stick with my prediction of a plateau in the app numbers at Harvard this year.</p>
<p>So you mean that we, as a whole, statistically speaking, have a better chance than last year's pool??</p>
<p>So you mean that we, as a whole, statistically speaking, have a better chance than last year's pool??</p>
<p>"As a whole?" Probably. For one thing, they only accepted 804 SCEA this year vs. 885 last year. That alone means more will be taken from the RD pool for the 1,640 total slots.</p>