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...December, high school seniors had to decide whether to send in their Harvard application by January 1. And though the admissions office expressed concern over the number of applications only a month prior to the regular decision deadline, over 27,000 students applied to Harvard—an 18 percent increase from the previous year...
...Harvard, Princeton, and Virginia were not the only schools to report a jump in total applications. Yale, which kept its single-choice early action program, saw a 16.6 percent increase in the number of total applicants, from...
...complicate the admissions round, Harvard unveiled an unprecedented financial aid initiative in October. The initiative, which will take effect next year, will ask families making between $120,000 and $180,000 per year to pay 10 percent of their income. Families with incomes between $60,000 and $120,000 will be expected to contribute between 0 and 10 percent of their income...
...With this added uncertainty, Harvard admissions officials decided to offer 110 fewer spots to freshmen than the previous year. As a result, Harvard had the lowest acceptance rate in its history at 7.1 percent...
...Class of 2012, which will enter next fall, is the most economically diverse in Harvard’s history—one of the admissions office’s stated goals. As of early May, 55 percent of the incoming freshman class are expected to be on financial aid, an increase from from 49 percent the previous year...