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Nearly four-fifths of the students who were offered a place in the Class of 2011 have agreed to matriculate, putting Harvard’s much-watched admissions yield at a percentage nearly identical to last year’s. And this spring, wait-listed students lucked...
...president resigned after a protracted battle with Faculty of Arts and Sciences professors that made headlines around the world; this February, the national press largely cast Harvard in a rosy glow after the University selected its first woman president in its 371-year history. And yet, the admissions yield figures for 2007 and 2006 were separated by just six-tenths of a percent...
...percentage terms, this year's 79.2 percent admissions yield matches up with last year's figure of 79.8 percent, continuing to hover near 80 percent as it has for the past few years, according to Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons...
Harvard’s rate tends to be well above that of other highly selective institutions. Last year, Princeton and Stanford both reported yields of 69 percent, and Yale’s yield was 71 percent...
...admissions office points to the expansion of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative—which will cover about 25 percent of the incoming class—as well as extensive recruiting efforts as major factors in the College’s high yield rates. The College expanded the initiative this year, making a Harvard education free for students whose families make less than $60,000 and lessening the required contribution for families that make between...