<p>Of the 30,000-40,0000 RD applicants that Harvard will most likely have, how many of them do you guys think are actually competitive applicants?</p>
<p>25,000?
20,000?</p>
<p>Just curious</p>
<p>I personally think about 20,000. Obviously you get thousands of applicants that have absolutely no idea how to write an essay. And there are others who take the ‘No SAT cut offs’ as an indication that they can apply with scores that are below 1000.</p>
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<p>“Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons affirms 80 to 90 percent of applicants are qualified to be [at Harvard].”</p>
<p>I’m not too sure. I’d like to think that the qualified pool is significantly less, and also that I am part of the qualified pool :P.</p>
<p>I’d have to agree with you, though. Probably somewhere around the 20,000-25,000 range.</p>
<p>Really? 90% seems like a lot 0_0</p>
<p>You said “qualified”. Fully 90% would be qualified to attend Harvard and could handle the school work and graduate without relative drama. </p>
<p>That’s my def’n of qualified. Perhaps you’re mixing the term with “competitive” within the context of the application pool. That’s drops down the percentage dramatically.</p>
<p>FYI, my guess, based on previous trends, is that the RD round will be closer to 30K – no where near 40K.</p>
<p>Perhaps.</p>
<p>On a side note, do you have to pay to get put on the waitlist?</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale and Princeton do not require a deposit when confirming acceptance. I don’t think any school requires you to pay a deposit to be on their waitlist.</p>
<p>"On a side note, do you have to pay to get put on the waitlist? " Absolutely not. It’s an administrative exercise.</p>
<p>Anyone know how the RD admit rate will compare to EA, which seemed to me awfully high?</p>
<p>The regular decision acceptance rate is ridiculously low. Last year (for the Class of 2016), the early action acceptance rate was 18.2%, and regular decision was 4.2%.</p>
<p>You can see more statistics here: [2016</a> Ivy League Admissions Statistics | The Ivy Coach](<a href=“http://theivycoach.com/2016-ivy-league-admissions-statistics/]2016”>2016 Ivy League Admissions Statistics | Ivy Coach)</p>
<p>Oh, lord. I was hoping it wouldn’t be that bad. At least it looks like my odds won’t be so terrible at Brown…</p>
<p>Yes, as you can see almost 96% of applicants get rejected, so never expect to be admitted.</p>
<p>The acceptance rate for Brown and Cornell are reasonable. It would be a good idea to apply to apply to them too.</p>
<p>The RD round will probably decline to almost 3% flat. The overall acceptance rate will probably go down from 5.9% last year to around 5.5%.</p>
<p>stupiddorkyidiot - odds perhaps are better for Brown but it is hard to find rhyme or reason as to where you get accepted, my son was accepted to Harvard and and most other schools but turned down from Brown. He recently said that many of his friends at Harvard said that Harvard was the only “top” school they were accepted to.</p>
<p>Funny how things work out!</p>
<p>so nervous about the decisions…</p>
<p>This is probably my first post in the Harvard thread, but I feel the need to post regarding the whole “rejected from Brown, accepted at Harvard” deal.</p>
<p>This is coming from someone who has applied to Brown and didn’t to Harvard (I honestly have no interest.)</p>
<p>I think that if Brown would see what would be considered the prototypical Harvard applicant–nuts SAT scores, ECs, GPA, more business-y, less artsy (yes, now I’m generalizing) etc.–they would go “Well, we want a nice yield and he’ll probably end up at HYPS so we’ll reject him.” Whereas, being a prototypical Harvard applicant will yield an acceptance from Harvard. </p>
<p>Does this make any sense? I could be totally off.</p>
<p>^ My problem with that theory is that it isn’t nearly that easy to predict who will and won’t get into Harvard.</p>
<p>I’d agree that with a cursory look 90% seem qualified. But peeling back the onion, I believe, will show weakness like an easy class schedule, or SAT’s taken too many times and EC’s that can’t be documented or weak essay’s. By the time the onion is peeled, I suspect there’s only 5-10K truly geat candidates. Afterall the top 1% of all high U.S. school seniors is only about 15,000 students. They all can’t be great.</p>