<p>[A</a> first for Harvard | Harvard Gazette Online](<a href=“http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/01/a-first-for-harvard/]A”>A first for Harvard — Harvard Gazette)</p>
<p>30500 applications…any speculation as to what the acceptance rate may be this year?</p>
<p>Assuming Harvard has only 1660 open slots and a 80% matriculation rates(in line with previous years and slightly elevated to account for Harvard’s generous financial aid and our current economy), the admittance rate should be</p>
<p>6.8%.</p>
<p>Damn…:-(</p>
<p>It will level off eventually. But still, 30,500 applications is still a remarkable figure.</p>
<p>Damn. That accept rate does not bode well. 30,500 is a monster number</p>
<p>it really doesn’t mean much. Recently it’s become fashionable to apply to harvard on some forlorn hope, even if you’re unqualified.</p>
<p>The generous financial aid is certainly enticing, however.</p>
<p>@Messiah</p>
<p>one can hope. Still, it won’t make getting an acceptance any easier</p>
<p>Almost the same as Brown…and wonders what other school’s stats are?</p>
<p>But you have to remember that a lot of people apply to Harvard just to apply to Harvard. A decent number of people aren’t really qualified and don’t expect to get in, they just apply for the hell of it</p>
<p>I can’t say I’m surprised really. I was expecting near to 40,000 :P</p>
<p>Less prestigious ivies have been getting around 29,000 - so I guess in this climate, everyone is applying everywhere?</p>
<p>Congratulations Harvard. Just a few more thousand and you’ll match schools like Ohio State! :)</p>
<p>1.) High school class of 2010 is about the end of a mini baby boom (last kids of the last kids of the original baby boom of the 50s).</p>
<p>2.) The increase in middle class aid has surely also caused another jump as more kids learn of it. Kids who excel academically, but previously never thought they had ANY hope of paying for Harvard, are applying. At one time you mostly had to be rich. Then mostly smart and rich. Now, just smart. </p>
<p>3.) I think the number of applications per child has increased continually over the past…??..10 years. </p>
<p>4.) In this economy, one HAS to “shop” the financial offers. </p>
<p>5.) Also, as the admit rates get lower, it increases the applicant pool. The 2400/36/4.0 kids still know that it’s a crap shoot, even for them. So they have to sow their seeds widely and put more applications out there. </p>
<p>I don’t envy the admissions staff their jobs right now.</p>
<p>Stanford has received more than 32,000 applications this year.</p>
<p>it will probably will be like 2.5 % or something like that.</p>
<p>[NYU</a> > The Office of Public Affairs > NYU Receives Record Number of Freshman Applications](<a href=“NYU News”>NYU News)</p>
<p>NYU is the most preftigious national university.</p>
<p>That NYU announcement was from a year ago, according to the date at the top of the release.</p>
<p>Is there just anecdotal evidence that it is “its become fashionable to apply to Harvard on some forlorn hope”?</p>
<p>If anything, where we live its the opposite. When my kid applied to Harvard, she was the first in 10 years. This is a high school in CT that students routinely apply to Yale, Stanford, Cornell and MIT. There is a widespread negative perception of Harvard that it is elitist which is not true.</p>
<p>It’s not more elitist than Yale…</p>
<p>Neither is elitist - its all perception.</p>