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...total of 20,918 students applied this year, an increase of 6.7 percent from last year’s 19,609, according to Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis...
...McGrath Lewis pointed to several factors that might have contributed to the rise in this year’s applications, including recent changes in Harvard’s early admission policy, stronger financial aid and increased media focus on colleges and universities...
Harvard’s revised admissions policy, which allows consideration of applicants who simultaneously applied to binding Early Decision programs at other schools, may have played a role in this year’s increase McGrath Lewis said...
...significant increase in the number of applicants who applied to us early,” said McGrath Lewis. “It may have been partially because of the permission we gave people to apply both to an Early Decision program and our Early Action program...
Bruce Breimer, a college counselor at Collegiate High School in New York City, said he agreed with McGrath Lewis’ analysis of the numbers...