True admission rate

xFirefirex
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:12:06 +0000

Harvard says about 70% of the students that apply are academically qualified. So 35k applicants apply. Let’s take away the 30% (10500). So that gives us 24500 applicants that are academically qualified.
They accept a little over 2k but let’s keep it simple and say they accept 2000 students. So that gives us a 8.16% acceptance rate compared to a 5.8% acceptance rate.
So to put it shortly, if you’re qualified, it’s still a long shot.