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Overall, Harvard’s early statistics remained similar to last year’s. Slightly fewer students were accepted from a slightly larger applicant pool, for an acceptance rate of 21 percent...
...majority of low-income applicants appear in the regular pool, according to Fitzsimmons, and admissions officials are hoping for a substantial increase in applications from those students targeted by the initiative
While last year’s early pool was the first in Harvard’s history to accept more women then men, the gender divide tipped back in the opposite direction this year. Females made up 46.3 percent of the early admit pool, similar to the rate for the Class of 2007.Fitzsimmons said the decrease was the result of normal fluctuations in demographics, which he said also accounted for a slight increase in African-American (up 1.8 percent from last year) and Hispanic admits (up 1.1 percent). The regional breakdown of accepted students remained stable...
Almost 72 percent of this year’s early pool applied for financial aid, a slight increase from last year. Byerly also deferred 3,120 students and rejected...
Harvard, Yale and Stanford all switched last year to single-choice early action programs, a non-binding system that limits students to one early application. Harvard’s early application pool plummeted, while Yale and Stanford, which previously used a binding early decision policy, both saw substantial increases...