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According to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons '67, this year's outcome is not a complete surprise. He said that the number of admits is consistent with the range of 900 to 1,200 established over the last few years, since the admissions staff acts conservatively in extending early offers of admission...
Harvard's early action program, now almost a quarter-century old, has become the choice of an increasingly large number of college applicants, particularly over the past decade. The program's growth accelerated even further in 1995-96, when several other top schools moved to binding early decision programs, which require students to attend if they are admitted...
Early admission programs have garnered a great deal of media attention in the past few years--another explanation for this year's record number of applicants...
...high school guidance counselors have said that the large number of successful early applicants have encouraged more students to apply early, despite the long-standing admissions office policy that applying early won't give students a better chance of being accepted...
From a demographic perspective, 48.4 percent of this year's early admits were female, up from last year's rate of 47.3 percent. Geographic diversity was similar to last year, with a slightly higher number of admits from New England and mid-Atlantic regions and slightly lower admits from Canada and abroad...