"We want to be 100 percent certain that we would take the person later on," Fitzsimmons said. "[In terms of chance of admission,] there is no advantage and no disadvantage to applying early."
With the applicant pool remaining roughly the same size as last year, he said the demographics are also virtually identical.
"It looks as though [the pool] will be at least as ethnically diverse as last year," Fitzsimmons said.
While the 48.2 percent of applicants who are women still makes up less than half of the pool, this year's numbers continue to inch closer to the fifty-fifty mark with a 0.6 percent change from last year.
Geographic diversity also remained largely unchanged.
Fitzsimmons said that financial aid continues to be among the questions that dominate student inquiries.
Last spring, Harvard made major changes to its financial aid program adding $2,000 to all student grants and changing the policy on outside awards so that they would no longer reduce the amount of the Harvard award.
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