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Despite a recent study’s findings that college enrollment hit an all-time high in October 2008, the College has not seen dramatic fluctuations in its enrollment number in the past years...
Other factors contributing to the increase in enrollment include the “great recession” and an all-time high in the number of high school graduates—not to mention that the upswing continues a long-term trend, according to Richard A. Fry, a senior researcher at the center and the author of the study, which evaluated data from the U.S. Census Bureau...
...said that the study is of “limited particular relevance to Harvard,” given that the College has typically seen an excess demand for a limited number of seats—whereas community colleges are able to adjust enrollment figures in accordance with applicant numbers—and that the primary surge impelling the surge in enrollment occurred in the context of community colleges...
Though enrollment numbers will not see any drastic changes, the admissions office is running ahead of the number of applications that it had received at this point last year, according to McGrath. She said that the overall increase in applications to the College over the past few years can be attributed in part to a greater value placed on a college education...
Originally, the administration had set a 1,000-person cap on the number of students who would be allowed to spend January in Harvard housing. We appreciate the flexibility of the College’s ultimate decision to admit more students who demonstrated legitimate needs (though the actual number on campus will never dramatically exceed 1,000 due to students’ different schedules). And, by any standard, the 93 percent of applicants accepted—which included students ranging from thesis writers to athletes to members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals—is an impressive number to accommodate...