Harvard’s most recent CDS at https://oir.harvard.edu/files/huoir/files/harvard_cds_2016-17.pdf shows 7.9% black for first year vs 7.1% for full undergraduate class (matching the 7.1% figure I listed in my earlier post), not a huge difference . When you see numbers that are much larger than listed in the CDS, IPEDS, College Navigator, and publications by the other Ivies; it relates to using a different reporting method from the national reporting standard. For example, if you exclude the standard reporting category, “two or more races”, then the percentages increase. Harvard website publications generally list percent of ethnic groups in admitted class, rather than enrolled class, which again causes the percentage to increase.