According to The Crimson, they may be taking more students than normal off the waitlist this year. They accepted 110 fewer students this year than last as a result of uncertainty about their yield, and they plan to go to the waitlist to fill the class if the yield isn't higher than it has been in recent years.
The Harvard Crimson :: News :: College Admissions Rate Drops to 7.1% Quote:
Recent financial aid initiatives at Harvard and other colleges, as well as Harvard’s elimination of early action, made it particularly difficult for the admissions office to predict how many students would enroll this year, according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67.
As a result, Harvard accepted fewer students to avoid over-enrolling its freshman class, Fitzsimmons said.
Fitzsimmons said that the admissions office might be relying more than usual on the waitlist—which numbers in the “many hundreds”—to fill up the Class of 2012.
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