Admissions Numbers
A Look Inside the Harvard Class of 2035
Recent data published and analyzed by the Chronicle of Higher Education reveals that the revolution is set to continue, and that the Harvard Class of 2035, as well as other college classes across the United States, will change dramatically in the coming decades.
Multiculturalism
Numbers predict that the Class of 2035 will be several times more diverse than today's graduating class.
A Numbers Game
According to a NYTimes article, as of 2013, the ACT had won the testing race, with 1,666,017 students taking it, versus 1,664,479 for the SAT. It has become the clear favorite of harried and stressed high schoolers looking for their golden ticket to college across the country.
Advancing Advanced Placement
According to a recent report released by the College Board on February 11, 2014, the number of high school students taking Advanced Placement Exams has been consistently increasing over the past 10 years.
Losing Grip
Harvard was the only school in the Ivy League to experience a decrease in early admissions applicants this past year.
Is Harvard Losing Its Grip?
Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania all saw a rise in their early application pools; Harvard was the only Ivy League school to face a decrease in the number of its early decision applications, by 3 percent.
