Harvard College Accepts Record-Low 3.43% of Applicants to Class of 2025
“The fact that we’re nearly 53 percent female is a great milestone, something that — when we first started out in the early ’70s trying to make Harvard better — was really only a dream,” Fitzsimmons said.
The admitted Class of 2025 represents students from all 50 states and 94 countries. Roughly 20.4 percent of the admitted class hails from Mid-Atlantic states, followed by 19.8 percent from the South, 17 percent from Western and Mountain States, 16.4 percent from New England, and 11.9 percent from the Midwest. Students from U.S. territories and abroad make up 14.5 percent of the admitted class.
This year’s record-low admissions rate is down from the 4.92 percent of students admitted to the Class of 2024 and eclipses the previous record-low 4.50 percent of applicants admitted to the Class of 2023. The College saw a record-high number of applicants this year, surpassing the previous record of 43,330 applicants to the Class of 2023 and increasing 43 percent from the 40,248 students who applied to the Class of 2024.
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This year’s admitted class also includes 19 veterans and 40 students interested in ROTC, compared to 13 veterans and 47 ROTC prospects last year.
Harvard: REA Acceptance Rate – Class of 2025
Those applying Restrictive Early Action to the Crimson Class of 2024 were accepted at a 13.9% clip, a friendlier figure than the 13.4% encountered by the Class of 2023. This was the first time in the last six years that the REA acceptance rate actually went up. Such is the hard-to-grasp level of competition at Harvard University—you have to take your encouraging signs where you can find them. Of course, any positive signals were obliterated by the Class of 2025 REA numbers. Out of 10,086 REA applications to join the 2021-22 freshman class, only 747 individuals (7.4%) were admitted. While 8,023 of those applicants were deferred to the regular cycle, 924 did receive an outright rejection.
Harvard Acceptance Rate – Class of 2025
Out of an all-time record 57,435 applicants, a mere 1,968 of Class of 2025 hopefuls were admitted. This translates to a stunningly low (even by Harvard’s standards) 3.43% acceptance rate. For contrast, there were 40,248 applications submitted for a place in the 2020-21 freshman class; just 1,980 were accepted. This equates to a 4.9% acceptance rate.
Admissions Rate: 4.7%
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The acceptance rate at Harvard is 4.7%. For every 100 applicants, only 5 are admitted.
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