Here’s How the Harvard Admissions Process Really Works

Here’s How the Harvard Admissions Process Really Works This year’s crop of high school dreamers have an advantage their predecessors did not: an inside understanding of how the College decides who qualifies as Harvard material. In the coming months, tens of thousands of Harvard hopefuls around the globe will grit their teeth, cross their fingers, and hit “Submit” on applications to attend the world’s top-ranked university. The vast majority will fail. Harvard — the second-most selective four-year college in the United States — typically sees an acceptance rate of about 5 percent. But this year’s crop of high school dreamers have an advantage their predecessors did not: an inside understanding of how the College decides who qualifies as Harvard material. This year’s application cycle comes soon after the high-stakes and high-profile Harvard admissions trial that spurred the release of previously confidential documents and data that shed unprecedented light on the inner workings of the College’s admissions process. The trial, which kicked off Oct. 15 in the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, marks the latest development in a four-year-old lawsuit alleging Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants. For the past two weeks, lawyers for the University and Students for… Read full this story

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