<p>The early rate of 18% worries me... I was foolish enough not to SCEA. It looks like the RD round is going to be very very low compared to last year to even out that usual acceptance rate. Furthermore, there are going to be Questbridge students, international students, students who earlied elsewhere, deferred students. And I think like Yale, the overall acceptance rate is going to be much much lower for the RD round.
I would think 5%. But does anyone know how much of the freshman class Harvard is taking during the RD round?</p>
<p>2,600 top, high achieving Deferrees from early action PLUS another maybe 25-30,000 new applicants in RD all fighting for the maybe 1,400 acceptance spots left.</p>
<p>Odds are not looking good for anyone. I would estimate <5% acceptance rate, but it all depends on how many apply RD.</p>
<p>The target class size for Harvard is about 1650. EA number is 772 and typically the yield for EA is 90%, so 695 slots were taken. So Harvard needs to admit another 960 students in the RD. Since the yield rate for Harvard is always between 72-78%, so the number for RD admission is likely between 1250-1350. Depending on how many applied, the admit rate is most likely under 5%. If the total application number stays like last year, the RD admission rate will be around 4.5%.</p>
<p>… You guys just took my hope away…</p>