The Boston Globe reports:
Amid a record number of applications, Harvard University admitted just 3.2 percent of undergraduate applicants for the class of 2026; the university also said Thursday it would offer free tuition to a wider pool of lower- and middle-class families in the coming year.
There's more:
The new Harvard class is 60 percent students of color, down slightly from last year. It is 15.5 percent African American/Black (down from 18 percent last year), 27.8 percent as Asian American (nearly the same as last year), 12.6 percent as Latinx (down from 13.3 percent last year), 2.9 percent as Native American (up from 1.2 percent last year), and 0.8 percent as Native Hawaiian. Women account for more than half, 54.2 percent, of all those accepted.
When you don't have to submit test scores you get more applications.
