or they got a likely early on for sports or something</p>
<p>Anyways, 2000 isn’t a special number for diversity–it’s just the amount of kids they can best accommodate in each class. If you have houses across the river, that’s really going to be isolating portions of the student community, especially when it blizzards. Anytime you’re only accepting a small number of kids you’re going to be ‘leaving out’ many many other overqualified kids…</p>
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They already don’t, and even though there’s only a small distance there’s still some isolation of non-yard frosh from yard frosh.</p>
<p>The 5.5 percent figure is wrong, because Harvard admits more students than it enrolls. Even Harvard doesn’t have a 100 percent yield, although in a typical year it has the top yield in the country. I know students Harvard admitted who turned down Harvard for MIT, and one who turned down Harvard for Notre Dame (which would not be my choice in the same circumstances). I think the correct best guess was already given by coureur above.</p>
<p>It’s not a guess.
I suppose I see your connection b/w the accept. rate and the yield.
But regardless of how many spots on the wait list Harvard has to delve into (and theoretically up their acceptance rate), there are only 1600 spots.</p>
<p>No, you are not taking into account that Harvard will admit more students than it has spots. It does this every year, because not all students offered a spot take a spot. Amazing, I know, but true. As I wrote above, coureur has already posted a more educated guess, I think in this thread.</p>
<p>Harvard has about 1650 spots I heard and has an 80% yield rate so will have to accept about 2000-2100 to get that 1650. Comes out to 7.2% acceptance rate if they admit 2100, probably around 7% as they will probably take just under 2100.</p>
<p>Ohhh… so they’ll admit more ppl than necessary to make sure all of the spots are filled - I’ll admit, I did not know that. But what if their yield is higher than expected and there aren’t enough spots to accommodate everybody?</p>