@ibanker38 Is the below how Harvard calculates their acceptance rate? If so (I am not sure), that’s disingenuous way of calculating their acceptance rate because it has an effect of artificially lowering their acceptance rate by increasing number of applicants in the RD round by adding the same group of deferred applicants from SCEA round – in effect, counting the same group of applicants TWICE. Please tell me that Harvard doesn’t do that.
Example:
SCEA round: 1,000 applicants. 100 accepted, 800 deferred and 100 rejected. This means acceptance rate of 10% during SCEA round.
RD round: 9,200 new applicants PLUS 800 old deferred applicants = 10,000 total applicants during RD round. Only 500 accepted which equates to 5% acceptance rate during RD.
Total applicants during SCEA and RD rounds: 1,000 PLUS 10,000 = 11,000. Out of these 100 (SCEA round) PLUS 500 (during RD round) are accepted, which equates to 600 accepted students.
600 divided by 11,000 = 5.45% acceptance rate. Is this how Harvard calculates the acceptance rate? I am not sure so I am asking.