gibby
April 1, 2015, 6:27pm
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Harvard Crimson: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/4/1/regular-admissions-class-2019/
A total of 1,013 students were greeted with congratulatory messages when they logged into their admissions portals at 5 p.m. Tuesday, joining the 977 students who were admitted to the class through the College’s restrictive early action program. Including the 4,292 students who were deferred from the early action applicant pool, the regular admission rate was 2.8 percent this year, also down from last year’s rate of 3.1 percent.
Harvard Gazette: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/04/harvard-college-admits-1990
About 22 percent come from the mid-Atlantic states, 21 percent from the Western and Mountain states, 18 percent from the South, 17 percent from New England, 11 percent from the Midwest, and 11 percent from the U.S. territories and abroad. International citizens make up 10.8 percent of the class and 7.7 percent are U.S. dual citizens.
Fifty-two percent of those admitted are men, reflecting the fact that more men than women applied. Asian-Americans comprise 21 percent of the admitted students, Latinos 13.3 percent, African-Americans 12.1 percent, and Native American or Native Hawaiian 2 percent. All but the Native American percentages are records.
Compared to last year, larger percentages of admitted students intend to concentrate in the social sciences (26 percent vs. 23.8 percent), the humanities (15 percent vs. 13.6 percent), and computer science (6 percent vs. 4.5 percent). Those interested in biological sciences make up 19.6 percent of the class, 12.2 percent engineering, 7 percent physical sciences, and 6.4 percent mathematics. “Undecided” decreased from 8.3 percent to 7.8 percent.
notjoe
April 1, 2015, 6:41pm
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Fewer than 2000 students total were offered spots in the class of 2019. That’s an astonishingly small number to fill 1660 slots. Congratulations to all the students here who made this very selective group.
Interesting… so 51.2% plan to major in STEM (18.8% engineering/CS, 32.5 natural sciences/math) , 41.0% in humanities & social sciences, and 7.8% undecided.
I once read a famous quote on this site and thought it was applicable: “When you’re in the dough, fax the colleges that denied you a copy of your rejection letter every day — letting them know just how badly they screwed up.”
Bunch of my friends waitlisted. wonder if this is how they’re able to select so few and still fill the beds.
ormdad
April 2, 2015, 1:23am
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@Regurge01 Harvard’s yield is around 81% so that works out to roughly 40 spots to fill from the waitlist. Last year they accepted 30 off the WL.
@ormdad did harvard release how many they waitlisted this year?
ormdad
April 2, 2015, 3:07am
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@Regurge01 I don’t think they generally release that number, just how many were accepted. This is an interesting read but it is pretty old:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/3/31/students-waitlist-admissions-college/