<p>Falcon1 thanks for pointing out the typos. </p>
<p>Correction: The stats i mentioned in my previous post represents the numbers of International students currently enrolled at Harvard during 2011-12 (among all colleges and all levels).</p>
<p>For Harvard class of 2017 (undergrads) out of 2029 students who were admitted, only 10% were international stydents.</p>
<p>^^The 4404 international students for listed for the 2012-2013 academic year represents the total enrolled international students for the entire university (Harvard College and over ten graduate schools).</p>
<p>According to the data, there were 723 total international students at Harvard College or about 180 per class which is what we have been saying. More sobering is the statistic that only 15 total students at the college were from India. It seems that Harvard College only enrolls about 4 students a year from India.</p>
<p>(Edit: I was typing when Aljubail’s last post came in)</p>
<p>So, I guess being an international student from an underrepresented country is a hook, am I right?
I am from Italy and I’ll be the only one applying to Harvard in my school, and I think there won’t be a lot of people applying from the rest of the country. Will this help me? Is Italy an underrepresented country?</p>
<p>@dorystea You can look at the link that Aljubail provided and draw your own conclusions.</p>
<p>Personally, I don’t see how you can describe being from a rather populated country that doesn’t have many students at Harvard a “hook”. </p>
<p>From what I can tell, there are only 6 students from Italy at Harvard College. That means they only enroll about 1.5 per year (more aptly 1 or 2). If you believe you are at the very top of the heap among Italian applicants (leaving aside the possibility of development, celebrity or extremely politically connected applicants for the moment*), AND that admissions officers can always differentiate who is at the top of heap AND that they always choose that person, then yes, you are “hooked”.</p>
<p>*(note: I do not know how athletic recruiting is done with respect to internationals)</p>
<p>I see what you mean. It’s definitely not a hook so.</p>
<p>But if they only accept 1/2 students per year and there’s a pool of applicant of idk, 200? That’s really hard. But what if there are 30 applicants? That would be so much easier, i think. It’s not a properly hook, it is more like there is less competition. So I think it is someway advantaged from being an international student from the UK or India, from which they recives plenties of applications, isn’t it?</p>
<p>^^ I’m sorry I didn’t mean to come off as snarky as that sounded. Just trying to highlight what has been long been said about how difficult it is to gain acceptance to Harvard (or any of the very top colleges) as an international. Hope you’re one of the lucky ones!</p>
<p>don’t apoligize, i only have to thank. at first I thought that underrepresented country were underrepresented because of the lack of applicants, so yeah, thanks for explaining me.</p>
<p>i don’t really know what my chances at harvard are, i’ll just hope i’ll have a lucky shot</p>
<p>^^ Cross posted again. Well yes, 30 or 200 makes a big difference if you assume Harvard feels obligated to take 1 or 2 students each year. Not sure you can make that assumption but I know very little about international admissions. </p>
<p>As far as I know, there is no way of knowing how many people apply each year from Italy. You can only do your best and hope you are among the 1 or 2 they choose. Good luck!</p>