Harvard’s acceptance rate sinks to record low
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A bicyclist walked by Harvard University’s Langdell Hall, which includes Harvard Law School’s library, in Cambridge, Mass. in Aug. 1, 2005. The Ivy League school announced today that it had accepted 2,037 students for next fall’s freshman class out of a pool of 39,041 applicants — a 5.2 percent acceptance rate. Last year, Harvard admitted 5.3 percent of applicants.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. » It’s harder than ever to get into Harvard University, which has set a record for its acceptance rate.
The Ivy League school announced today that it had accepted 2,037 students for next fall’s freshman class out of a pool of 39,041 applicants — a 5.2 percent acceptance rate. Last year, Harvard admitted 5.3 percent of applicants.
The class includes record-high percentages of black and Asian-American students. Fourteen percent of the admitted students are black and 22.1 percent are Asian-American.
William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions, says the economic diversity of students is also increasing thanks to Harvard’s financial aid policy that bases tuition rates on family income. Students from families with an annual income of less than $65,000 pay nothing toward the cost of a Harvard education.
Admitted students have until May 1 to accept their offers.
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I am sorry but I must turn Harvard down. I prefer my beloved UH.
You have no business being on that side of the James River, you have the intellect of a rock….
In that case, she should fit in fine there.
If you mean I am a determined person, I agree. But having a high IQ is not my fault.
No, I meant to say you got the IQ of a chicken. You are not even close to even sniffing the pedigree of an Ivy degree…..stay under your troll bridge.
I had no idea that Harvard has a sliding tuition scale based on family income. Bravo to them for doing so instead of just sticking to the status quo which they could easily have done.Free tuition for families making less than 65k is pretty awesome.
I think the grocery stores, car companies, cell phone providers, and cable companies should do the same – free for everyone under a certain income level, and make those who have a job pay double. Oh wait, the current socialist regime has already done that……
Punahou is like that as well. When a school has reached a pinacle in terms of its fame and endowment, it can afford to offer free tuition or like Punahou offer to accept public school students who don’t pay tuition AND do not have the highest test scores.
What is the true tuition ??? and who is subsidizing this ????
Harvard’s endowment stood at about $37.6 billion as of January 2016. The average total need-based aid for undergraduates at Harvard is $44,430 per year. Tuition, fees, room, and board cost about $60, 656 per year.
yikes…that takes a lot of overtime in a pizza restaurant in waikiki!