Harvard University
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For the 2024-2025 admission cycle, Harvard University had a 3.64% acceptance rate. However, that’s just one number, and all we can really glean from this number is that getting into Harvard is, contrary to Elle Woods’ statement, very hard. At elite colleges, we have to dig deeper into their statistics to learn trends, analyze changes, and uncover the truth behind what’s really going on in elite admissions. Thankfully, we do this every single year to help optimize the process for our clients.
If you aren’t happy at your current college and are thinking, “maybe Harvard would do that trick?” you aren’t alone. Harvard is objectively awesome as an academic institution for nearly any field. Dreaming of a transfer to Harvard is very different than actually executing on that dream, however.
The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is a bit of a mouthful. However, simply, it is the engineering school at Harvard. Much like the rest of the Cambridge-based Ivy League, Paulson is very competitive to get into. If you hope to attend Harvard Engineering, you must be a top student.
Harvard is one of the most renowned universities in the world, and one of the hardest to get into in the United States. For the Class of 2029, the first year acceptance rate was only 4.2% out of nearly 50,000 applicants. The most impressive statistic isn’t the miniscule acceptance rate, though — it’s the yield. That same year, 83.6% of accepted students chose to attend. This acceptance rate far surpasses that of other top schools. When students get into Harvard, most often they decide to go to Harvard.