Harvard University Class of 2023 Early Action Statistics

It was no ordinary Early Action admissions cycle for Harvard this year — not when the university found itself defending its admissions practices in federal court. Heck, Harvard’s longtime admissions czar, William Fitzsimmons, had to testify in the school’s defense. As our regular readers and all those folks not living … 

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Harvard University Class of 2022 Early Action Stats

Decisions have been released for the Harvard University Class of 2022. In all, of the 6,630 students who applied for Early Action admission to the university this year, 964 found out today that they got in. This marks a 14.5% Early Action admission rate for Harvard, precisely the same Early Action … 

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Harvard Early Action Decisions

The Harvard Early Action decisions are out! Run for the hills, for higher ground! The floodgates usually open the day that Harvard releases its Early Action decisions. The main office phone rings off the hook (we don’t answer it, as our voice message and the permanent Nelson Mandela banner on … 

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Harvard Class of 2021

The Early Action numbers are in for the Harvard Class of 2021. This year, applications rose by a margin of 5% — 6,473 students ended up applying Early to the university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Of those 6,473 applicants, 938 earned offers of admission. Congratulations to our students at Ivy Coach … 

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Deferred Harvard Early Action Applicants

It’s December 11th. Yesterday, Harvard notifed its Early Action applicants of their fates. Some students earned admission. Some students were denied admissions. And still other students were deferred admission. For this latter group, their fate at Harvard will be decided during the Regular Decision round. And for the vast majority of these … 

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Harvard Early Action Results

Update at 5:15 PM EST: Deferred students seemed to find out first this year, then admitted applicants, and finally denied applicants. While this may not be the case this year (as in today), when Harvard University released their Early Action results last Early admissions cycle at 5 PM EST on December … 

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Harvard Early Action Figures

The Harvard Early Action figures for the Class of 2018 are in and we’ve got them for our readers. For the Class of 2018, slightly over 21 percent of students who applied via Early Action to Harvard earned a spot in the incoming class. In all, 992 students received positive … 

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Harvard Early Action

The Harvard Early Action numbers are in. For the Class of 2017, 895 students were admitted to Harvard University via Early Action. Last year, only 774 were admitted, marking an increase of 16%. As you may remember, Harvard’s Early Action pool increased this year by 14.7% as compared to last … 

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Harvard Admissions

There is an editorial in today’s edition of The Boston Globe in which the writer argues that the return of Early Action to Harvard makes the admissions process more equitable for all: “The admissions advantage for athletes has been a source of contention at Harvard for decades. A situation in … 

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Will Colleges Be Dropping Early Admissions Policies?

Are Early Decision and Early Action programs on the outs at our nation’s elite universities? When schools such as Harvard University, Princeton University, and the University of Virginia recently announced that they will be dropping their Early admissions programs, many high school students, parents, and college counselors began to wonder … 

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