Nearly 35,000 seek admission to Harvard's class of '15

Colleges & Universities A-Z Harvard University
1

<p>Which brings down the admissions rate to 6.0% as opposed to 6.9% last year. Everyone excited?
Record</a> applications to Harvard College | Harvard Gazette
Only a slight increase and we'll get into the 5% range!</p>

2

<p>BUT</p>

<p>At least we will be accepted by then. :)</p>

3

<p>AM in the middle of BB '46-'64, but got delayed by 5-7 years fo one reason or another and into a much worse demographic situation for the children. Another few years, it will get better/easier every year and schools will struggle with low enrollments. But not HYPMSCP… but nearly everyone else.</p>

4

<p>No, not nearly everyone else. Not hardly anybody else. The projected drop in the population of 18 year-olds bottoms out at more than 97% of last year’s peak, and that drop will likely be more than offset by increasing high school graduation and college attendance, immigration, and foreign students coming here for college. Fourth-tier colleges in New England and the Upper Midwest may be hurting, but schools in the Southwest will be stuffed to the gills.</p>

5

<p>^2nd gen babyboomers, I didn’t look how the demographics taper off. however, in the early -mid 90s, there were quite an enrollment crises at may state universities – shifting focus to teaching from research, etc. there were much activity then how to improve undergraduate teaching/education… 18 year olds should follow their parents demographic, and it will drop, to what level ? idk – 97% is almost no drop at all.</p>

6

<p>@jhs, according to this data (2008, slide#6) on total US high school graduates peaked in 2007-2008 at about 3.35M, gradually decreasing to about 3.17M (guesstimate, 2013-2015), before increasing again to the peak level in 2017-2019 and beyond. So you are not much off, maybe down to 94% of peak level.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/WICHE_US/W080319L.pdf[/url]”>http://www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/WICHE_US/W080319L.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

7

<p>

</p>

<p>If you are not one of the strongly hooked applicant that they pick 600 or so for strong math/science and strong humanities, then you are competing for the remaining 1,500 well rounded pool — making the acceptance rate 4.2% for this group, not 6%.</p>

8

<p>INSANE. :frowning: 35,000? This is disheartening. I don’t know how I’m going to survive the coming few months.</p>

9

<p>Yeah… Let’s do this Harvard '15… or maybe not given the statistics.</p>

10

<p>Does this necessarily mean that the same % of applicants are qualified, though?</p>

11

<p>Exactly my point in the other thread about this: I reckon that the standard to be admitted has not changed too much in the last 4 years despite the 50% increase in apps. Certainly it has been raised slightly, but not by that much…</p>

12

<p>^By a couple thousand, at least, but definitely not like, by 10,000.</p>

13

<p>That’s exactly what I was wondering. Harvard sent out copies of the commonapp this year as a part of its college mail; two other students in my chemistry class applied, and one only because Harvard sent her this application. She wasn’t even interested in going before that, and I doubt that she’s qualified anyway (good student, but…HARVARD!).</p>

14

<p>when i saw that percentage, I started mourning D: LOL
my hopes went down like on the stock market charts when a depression happens LOL</p>

15

<p>If you remove the supergeniueses, legacies, internationals, and recruited athletes, the acceptance rate is more like 2%.</p>

<p>QQQQQQQQQQQ</p>

16

<p>What’s going to be the acceptance rate for internationals this year? (roughly-I don’t expect anyone to know the exact number)</p>

17

<p>internationals have much lower acceptance rate at most colleges. so dont group them with legacies and athletes.</p>

<p>well don’t know about Harvard, but MIT’s international acceptance rate was below 4% last year. I’m guessing Harvard wouldn’t be any higher…</p>

18

<p>Yeah, internationals have it hard :(</p>

19

<p>As others have indicated, this change has a negligible effect on any particular applicant’s chance of admittance.</p>

20

<p>^Still, it is not encouraging in any way. What does have an effect on admittance is an increase from ~20k applicants a few years ago to 35k this year.</p>

<p>Though I do wonder if this has made the applicant pool any more competitive, or if the additional applicants are less competitive.</p>