Harvard Admit Rate Expected to Approach 6 Percent

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<p>"With a 15 percent spike in applications this year, the admissions rate to the College is poised to decrease to around 6 percent for the class of 2015, but Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said he believes it is unlikely that the College will experience another major increase in its number of applicants.</p>

<p>Citing the decreasing number of high school seniors and discouragingly low admission rates, Fitzsimmons said that “we may be reaching the end of these kinds of large scale increases”, such as the 5,000 more applications received between the admissions cycles for the classes of 2014 and 2015.</p>

<p>But admissions experts outside of the College disagree, saying that the ease with which students can submit college applications—through services like the Common Application, for example—will only continue to buttress the number of applicants to elite universities."</p>

<p>Admit</a> Rate Expected to Approach 6 Percent | The Harvard Crimson</p>

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<p>I think Common Application is one of the reasons why Harvard received 35,000 applications. It is the same reason which limits MIT’s applications by some 18,000. Though I can’t explain why there was an increase of 5,000 applications this year.</p>

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<p>It WAS 6 percent last year. </p>

<p>This year’s increase was in large part due to the decrease of the number of required subject tests from 3 to 2. This decrease was the last weapon the admissions office could use to easily gain more applicants; the admissions office knows this, and expects no such sudden increases in applications in near future. Outreach efforts alone, unless extreme, will not cause increases of more than 2000 in each of the following years.</p>

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<p>^It was 7% (unless I was taught how to round incorrectly.)
I think Harvard’s excessive advertising was the reason. Perhaps this year they plan on cutting back on that. That’s what I thought the Dean was implying, at least. I mean, I get wanting to have the lowest admit rate in the country, but there’s a point where it just becomes ridiculous, and I think the Dean sees it that way too.</p>

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<p>No need for fancy rounding. Harvard’s admission rate was 7.23%, which is just below Princeton’s 8.18%, Yale’s 7.88% and Stanford’s 7.31%. </p>

<p>Class of 2014 Statistics
Class Profile
Students Total
Applicants 30,489
Admitted 2,205
Matriculates 1,664
Yield 75.5%
Admitted from the Waiting List 94 </p>

<p>[Harvard</a> College Admissions § Applying: Statistics](<a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/statistics.html]Harvard”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/statistics.html)</p>

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<p>^That’s weird, I remember it as 6.9%.
[The</a> Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/3/31/financial-aid-percent-students/]The”>Acceptance Rate Falls to New Low | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>7.23 looks more likely if reported directly by Harvard though.</p>

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<p>^ I agree with Jimmy797. The Dean could have been implying that Harvard is going to control what it can control, such as advertising, to counter another huge inflation and/or it’s not like they are going to cut another subject test or something big like that… most likely…</p>

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<p>Xiggi seems to be the one doing some fancy rounding. Princeton’s rate was 8.8%
[Princeton</a> University | Admission Statistics](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admission_statistics/]Princeton”>http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admission_statistics/)</p>

<p>I was referring to this:
[A</a> historic year for Harvard admissions | Harvard Gazette](<a href=“http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/04/a-historic-year-for-harvard-admissions/]A”>A historic year for Harvard admissions – Harvard Gazette)</p>

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<p>@Polyglot
xiggi made a type-o, not rounding. 8.18 is not a number you round to ;)</p>

<p>And in the article you linked to, the acceptance rate is 6.9%, or 7%. The OP meant the admit rate would go down to 6.0% or so.</p>

<p>Anyway, 6.9, 7.23, who cares. Still the lowest admit rate among schools worth anything to me, and a .33 difference won’t really, well, make a difference. It’s going to drop this year whether we like it or not.</p>

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<p>I think the 7.23% includes waitlist admits, whereas the 6.9% figure from the Crimson was released the day before decisions were sent out, so it’s just people accepted on April 1 last year.</p>

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<p>RD rates at Yale, Columbia, and Stanford will be between 5% and 6%
(5.1, 5.7, and 5.5 respectively).</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1074794-admission-data-chart-ivies-stanford-mit.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1074794-admission-data-chart-ivies-stanford-mit.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Cuz everyone and their brother applies, and all of these schools mail “please apply to us” letters to everyone who does half-way decently on their PSATs.</p>

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<p>Dad2, you can still promote Swarthmore and Williams without trying to tear down Harvard and Stanford. Frankly, it makes you seem kind of small.</p>

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<p>Dude guys stop freaking out. If you’re really that good you’ll be part of that 6%. No worries, just let it be as my main band the beatles said. Success is not dictated whether you’ve been to harvard or what not. Success is based on your aptitude on a given job, no one cares what school you’ve been too. Think about it. You still call a doctor a Dr. no matter if he went to harvard medical or your local community college medical.</p>