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30,489 Apply for 2,110 Spots at Harvard = 6.9%

moshquerade

moshquerade

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Tough odds 😱


Record number seeks to join Harvard's class of '14
March 31, 2010 07:20 PM

Harvard University’s admission rate dipped below 7 percent this year, as the number of applications topped 30,000 for the first time, the college said today.

Beginning tomorrow, Harvard hopefuls will learn whether they are among the 2,110 students accepted to the class of 2014. The number of applications to the college has doubled since 1994, an increase university officials attribute partly to recent financial aid initiatives. This year, 30,489 applied to Harvard, with 6.9 percent accepted.

Among other Ivy League schools, Dartmouth College saw a 3.5 percent increase in applicants this year, with 18,778 applying. The admissions rate dropped from 12.5 percent to 11.5 percent.

The University of Pennsylvania saw a 17-percent increase in its pool of applicants to 26,938. Of those, 3,830 will be offered admission. That brought Penn's acceptance rate to 14.2 percent.
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/03/record_number_s.html
 
Two girls from my high school got into Harvard. One actually went, another decided for Stanford.

Both were Mexican btw, no asians got into Harvard from my school.
 
IAteYourMother said:
Especially if you're Asian.




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colleges usually accept more people than the class size because not all the students that get in will go there. For example, I'm assuming half the people that get into Harvard will end up going to Princeton, MIT, UPenn, Stanford, etc... Still an extremely competetive number, but nowhere near the single digits described.
 
that seems like pretty good odds to me. 20,000 of those people probably don't have a chance.
 
ed21x said:
colleges usually accept more people than the class size because not all the students that get in will go there. For example, I'm assuming half the people that get into Harvard will end up going to Princeton, MIT, UPenn, Stanford, etc... Still an extremely competetive number, but nowhere near the single digits described.
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Actually I think something absurd like over 80% of accepted students end up going to Harvard.
 
IAteYourMother said:
Actually I think something absurd like over 80% of accepted students end up going to Harvard.
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Yea.... not a lot of people apply to Harvard as a plan B.

I would guess that only people who applied to Yale, Princeton or perhaps one of the military academies would pick Harvard as plan B.
 
ProfJohn said:
Yea.... not a lot of people apply to Harvard as a plan B.

I would guess that only people who applied to Yale, Princeton or perhaps one of the military academies would pick Harvard as plan B.
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Some may have better scholarships at other Universities.

Most of the people I know that apply for Harvard is for graduate studies.
 
moshquerade said:
I'll be sure to tell Harvard Magazine you said so.


http://harvardmagazine.com/2006/07/harvard-college-enrollme.html
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What I meant was that sheer number of enrolled students is a pretty meaningless metric when you're trying to compare admission selectivity between those groups. Perhaps 60% of Asian people are accepted as opposed to 20% of White students. Perhaps the applicant pools are self-selecting, where higher quality students are present in one ethnic group than another. The numbers in the graph you showed are irrelevant to answer the question of racial admissions bias.
 
Matthiasa said:
Well it does show that asians are way over represented. 😛
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I would like to see how many applies for undergrad, grad, and post grad to admissions.

And, IMHO a good portion of the wealthy applicants applied out of pressures from their parents while knowing that they are not going to be excepted.
 
Harvard is the country club of the ivies; large number of people get in because of their family or political connections and then there's the lower bar for minority candidates.

If you're a native american and did decent in highschool, you have a very good shot at getting in. Similar thing for being black - one girl i know got into HBS with 600gmat and mediocre work experience.
 
iGas said:
I would like to see how many applies for undergrad, grad, and post grad to admissions.

And, IMHO a good portion of the wealthy applicants applied out of pressures from their parents while knowing that they are not going to be excepted.
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No Harvard for you.
 
AznAnarchy99 said:
Two girls from my high school got into Harvard. One actually went, another decided for Stanford.

Both were Mexican btw, no asians got into Harvard from my school.
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My town had 3 kids get into MIT.

One kid was the smartest kid in town. Asian.

The other two were black kids from the ghetto high school.
 
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