Harvard Admission Rate of 7%

By John Lauerman

March 30 (Bloomberg) — Harvard University’s undergraduate college said it admitted 7 percent of the applicants for the next entering class after the “most competitive admissions process in the history” of the institution.

Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, received a record 29,112 applications, William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid, said today in a statement. Financial aid offered by the university helped attract applicants, he said.

“Financial aid enables students with modest means to believe Harvard is possible for them,” Fitzsimmons said in the statement.

On April 1 last year, Harvard said it offered admission to 1,948 students, or 7.1 percent of 27,462 applicants.