<p>Hi everyone.
I dont know many things and might sound moron like but here we go.
Harvard admits 2300 or so. Out of which 900 will get in. So what happens to the rest , i mean if all of them want to go to harvard.
Thank you.</p>
<p>Harvard offers admission to about 2200 per year. About 1650 per year accept and attend Harvard. The remaining 550 or so per year decline the offer of admission and go to college elsewhere or not at all.</p>
<p>“if all of them want to go to harvard”</p>
<p>Harvard accepts this number because historically, they know this will give them the approx 1650 matriculants they want/need each Freshman class.</p>
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<p>Not exactly. Harvard admits around 2200-2300 students per year. A bit fewer than 900 choose not to matriculate. The rest do go to Harvard.</p>
<p>If, in the case that all of the accepted students choose to matriculate (a 100% matriculation rate as opposed to the 75% historical rate), I’d assume that Harvard’s just stuck with them. After all, Harvard can’t really renege on the acceptance because “we have no beds,” can they?</p>
<p>With the proliferation of the common app, I don’t this will be a problem in the foreseeable future; if anything, fewer might matriculate this year.</p>
<p>314…is correct IF everyone accepted the school would have to accommodate. This happens at schools sometimes, did at my school ages ago, and results in triples in a double room or being housed in the common room etc. I don’t think any school is prepared to handle 100% of its admitted class…</p>
<p>I got the idea.
Sorry for a small mistake.
I meant to say in RD, 2200 will be offered admissions right? Of which 900 might get in.
Or is it that 700+1400~2200.
And only 1400 are offered admissions in RD?</p>
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<p>I’m not sure what you’re saying. Being “offered admissions” is equivalent to “get[ting] in.”</p>
<p>quantumtuneling: Read cltdad’s post #2. What is more clear than that?? The 2200 people are OFFERED SPOTS in the freshman class. Some people decline the invitation. About 1650 accept the invitation. Period.</p>
<p>I think he is asking how many of those admitted students (whether or not they will end up attending) have already been accepted early as opposed to RD. This way he knows how many spots are left (roughly) for RD applicants to get accepted to hit the 2200 mark.</p>
<p>772 were accepted early.</p>
<p>…and early yield rates tend to be higher than RD, approx 90% - so approx 700 spots are now taken. RD yield is around 72-78% at Harvard, so they’ll probably accept around 1250-1300 students in the RD round to end up with a matriculating class size of 1650.</p>