<p>Gibby, I actually think that you are slightly exaggerating the number of students applying from Australia. I remember coming across an article mentioning that some 4000/6000 international applicants applied to Harvard in both the EA and RD cycles a couple of years ago, but I am unfortunately not able to find that article now…Judging from the competitive nature of some countries though, there should be a disproportionately high number of applicants from Asian countries, not so many from say Scandinavia or Eastern Europe. Canada, Australia and the UK will also probably boast a great deal of applicants to Harvard simply because English is also the official language. In any case however, I doubt that “hundreds” of students from Australia apply to H each year. Over a hundred, probably. </p>