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...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...
...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...
...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...
Moore—who has been named one of Fortune magazine’s “Most Powerful Women in Business”—called on the graduates-to-be to fill the void left by the previous generation, emphasizing that “making money is easy, making a difference...
Eliminating early action achieves diversity in two ways. First, it makes the process fairer for those students who could not apply early under the previous system because of a lack of money or inadequate college counseling. Second, the extra time in the fall gives admissions officers and athletic coaches the chance to recruit qualified high school students who would not typically apply to Harvard. While opponents of the decision warned that top applicants would be lost to peer institutions, “letters of intent” expressing interest in a student’s candidacy were sent in advance...