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<p>[After</a> a Record Admissions Season, GSAS Welcomes 719 New Students - The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences](<a href=“http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/student_affairs/after_a_record_admissions_season_gsas_welcomes_719_new_students.php]After”>http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/student_affairs/after_a_record_admissions_season_gsas_welcomes_719_new_students.php)</p>
<p>After the most competitive admissions season in its history, Harvards Graduate School of Arts and Sciences opens the 201112 academic year with 719 new students 637 PhD candidates and 82 AM candidates.</p>
<p>GSAS received nearly 12,000 applications for admission in 201112 a record high. Offers of admission were made to roughly 9 percent of that pool, or 1,188 applicants, up from 1,127 in the previous year.</p>
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<p>It shouldnt surprise anyone that this poster continues his string of distortions. The statistics he (she?) cites for graduate school admissions at Harvard are just a small piece of the total story. Specific individual graduate school departments at both Harvard and Princeton have extremely high matriculation rates, particularly if they are smaller. Sammy35 is cherry picking yield results from specific departments at Harvard and comparing those to Princetons overall graduate school yield. Silly.</p>
<p>From the article above, youll see that for the most recent year Harvard made offers to 1,188 prospective graduate school applicants. Of those, 719 chose to accept the offer. The overall yield was 61%, just as I had written previously.</p>
<p>The truly sad thing about this poster is that he apparently believes his own distortions. </p>
<p>What is totally predictable about this poster is that he typically appears in the late spring and late summer just prior to the time students are applying to or considering offers of admission from Princeton.</p>