Harvard University: Acceptance Rates & Statistics

Harvard Early Admissions

Harvard accepted 895 students to the Class of 2024 from a pool of 6,424 who applied early action for a rate of 13.9 percent. 9.6 percent of the admitted students are international and 10.1 percent are first-generation students. For the first time since the fall of 2013, the university’s early action pool posted a decline, with its early action pool decreasing by 7.7 percent. The 13.9 percent acceptance rate represents a 0.5 percent increase from last year. The early admission acceptance rate has not increased year-over-year since 2013. Dean Fitzsimmons takes a global view to explain the decrease, pointing to everything from wildfires in California (the number of early applicants from California declined nearly 17 percent) to school shootings and economic uncertainty to declining numbers of high school seniors. Women comprise 51.7 percent of the admitted class thus far, slightly more than last year, when women made up 51.3 percent of the early admit class. It seems that Harvard tipped in favor of women who are interested in the physical sciences and computer science. This year, 57.4 percent of admitted students who said they intend to concentrate in the physical sciences are women, compared to 52.9 percent last year and 33 percent the year before. For computer science, 49.1 percent of interested students are women, an increase from 42.9 percent last year, and 29 percent the year before.

Harvard Regular Decision Admissions

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