<p>In 2007, Harvard admitted 2058 students.
Its acceptance rate was 9.0%.
220 black students were accepted.</p>
<p>Assuming that the black students were accepted at the overall rate, there were 2444 black applicants.
In actuality, there were probably fewer. The black acceptance rate was likely higher. Eg: MIT’s acceptance rate was 12.5% overall in 2007 but 30.5% for black applicants. If we assume there was a similar disparity, a 144% difference, the black acceptance rate would be about 22%, meaning that there would have been 1000 black applicants. </p>
<p>Numbers of applications have increased since then of course. Perhaps there are 1500 black applicants.</p>
<p>I don’t see why the OP couldn’t have figured this out for him/herself though.</p>
<p>Source: [The</a> State of Black Student First-Year Enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities](<a href=“http://www.jbhe.com/features/57_freshmen.html]The”>The State of Black Student First-Year Enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities)</p>