Does having too many interests decrease chances of top universities? - HYP, Stanford, Caltech, MIT..

<p>^^ Unfortunately data isn’t published about the number of international students applying from each country. Currently there are 32 Australian students at Harvard College. If Harvard admits, on average, 8 students per year from Australia, and if the acceptance rate for Australian students is equal to Harvard’s overall acceptance rate of 5.9%, that would mean about 136 Australian students applied to Harvard last year (136 X .059 = 8.024). It’s anyone guess if those numbers are accurate, or if the acceptance rate of Australian students is higher or lower than the overall average acceptance rate. My personal guess would be that it’s tougher as an international student to get into Harvard than it is for a US student. If that’s true, it would mean the overall acceptance rate for students from Australia might be lower than Harvard’s overall acceptance rate, meaning greater than 136 Australian students are applying to Harvard. How many more students though is anyone’s guess.</p>