Harvard Class of 2018 RD admit rate = 3.1%

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<p><a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/3/27/regular-admissions-class-2018/"&gt;http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/3/27/regular-admissions-class-2018/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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At 5 p.m., the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid will send emails to 1,031 regular applicants receiving offers. Nine hundred ninety-two students were also admitted to the class through the early action program.</p>

<p>After seven years of continuous decline in its admissions rate, Harvard College announced Thursday that it has accepted 2,023, or 5.9 percent, of 34,295 students applying for admission to the Class of 2018—a slight increase from previous years.</p>

<p>The admit rate for applicants considered under regular decision, including the 3,197 early action candidates who were deferred to regular decision, was 3.1 percent, down from last year’s rate of 3.4 percent. Twenty-one percent of students who applied early action were accepted in December. </p>

<p>Those accepted to the Class of 2018 represent record levels of diversity, with African American and Latino students comprising 11.9 and 13 percent of the admitted students, respectively. Of students offered admission to the class, 19.7 percent are Asian American and 1.9 percent are Native American or Native Hawaiian. International students compose 10.5 percent of the class and 7.7 percent of admitted students are U.S. dual citizens.

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<p>Wow - really interesting. 96.9% of RD applicants will be rejected. It hardly seems worth applying unless you apply early.</p>

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<p>That’s fascinating info. Glad my son didn’t apply, those numbers are pretty daunting.</p>

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<p>Interesting that they now base the admit rate percent on the number of RD applicants. Didn’t they use to do it based on total applicants?</p>

<p>By admitting more during EA, it is easy to get this number lower.</p>

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<p>Fluffy, it doesn’t look like they are basing the overall admit rate on RD applicants, just that they have broken it out by both Early Action and RD. The article says that combined, the overall acceptance rate is up slightly to 5.9%.</p>

<p>You are absolutely right that universities can lower their RD acceptance rate by taking more students early. Moreover, they can significantly boost their yield rate - even Harvard, whose early action is not binding. I’m sure lots of kids scrap their other applications if/when they’re accepted early.</p>

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That seems to the message Admissions is sending out to applicants.</p>

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<p>Here’s the article from the Harvard Gazette with additional details: <a href=“College admits Class of ’18 — Harvard Gazette”>http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/03/college-admits-class-of-18/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>@baltimoreguy</p>

<p>You are right.
I focused in on the bolded text and the title of this thread.</p>

<p>Will be interesting to see if there is more of a focus on people applying EA if they feel that the RD rate is so low.</p>

<p>Curious, do they always announce the RD acceptance rate?</p>

<p>By the way, the other way to look at this is:</p>

<p>Harvard Acceptance Rate has gone up since last year!</p>

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<p>1200 students visiting in a single weekend. I wonder if that helps get a sense of the place or if the huge crowd of visitors makes it difficult.</p>

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<p>I know that Harvard doesn’t like to release these statstics but do you think you could give me a ballpark figure of what percent of African Americans Harvard accepts each year? Like I know they comprise 11.9 % of the overall student body, but of the African Americans who applied, approximately how many of them got in? I don’t expect you to know exactly but a realatively confident estimate woud be great to know!</p>

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<p>Harvard does release those stats, as do most other colleges in their “Common Data Set.” You can google the term for each college you are interested in. Enrollment by Racial/Ethnic Category = B2 Data. See: Harvard’s Common Data Set: <a href=“http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/CDS_2011-2012_Final.pdf”>http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/CDS_2011-2012_Final.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>@Gibby thank you but is there any way of knowing how many African Americans applied? 116 students got in but that is out of how many applying?</p>

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<p>Harvard, nor any college that I know of, releases that kind of information. </p>