<p>Latest news reveal 35,022 students applied to Harvard this year!</p>
<p>Is it bad news or good news?</p>
<p>Just means that Harvard was able to attract more students to apply this year to maintain or boost its rankings in the US News report. It shouldn’t be dramatically harder to get in compared to the previous years… Probably means that many more “unqualified” applicants applied due to Harvard’s advertisements.</p>
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<p>But you’re falsely assuming that H does anything to please the readers of a magazine. Frankly, they don’t give much of a flip. They do what they do to serve their own constituency. I’ll be gauche: they’re above it all.</p>