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DEL.ICIO.USCurious about Harvard?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For Georgia students waiting to hear from Harvard, the competition is very stiff. “A record total of 22,717 students have applied for entrance next September,” according to Harvard’s Web site. That’s up 15 percent from last year. Last year, 2,094 applicants got in.
SAT scores were up slightly, with nearly 11,000 applicants having an SAT verbal score of 700 or above and more than 12,000 with a math score upwards of 700. Almost 2,100 had a perfect verbal score of 800, and nearly 3,100 got an 800 in math.
Harvard officials attribute the rise in applications in part to a new financial aid program that lets parents who earn $40,000 a year or less off the hook for tuition. (?!?!) Those who earn from $40,000 to $60,000 a year get a major break on tuition, which runs $27,500. (Other expenses such as room and board bring the annual cost to $40,000 a year.)
And if you ever wondered how the admission process works at the ivyed one:
“Admissions selection meetings stretch from Jan. 28 to March 22. Applications are read by as many as four admissions officers and faculty members prior to the meetings. Deliberations about individual applicants begin in subcommittee and can last for up to an hour before a majority vote is taken. Beginning in early March, the 35-person full committee convenes to make the final determination on every applicant. Those discussions about individual applications might also continue for an hour or more before a vote. Everything possible is done to ensure a thorough review for every candidate.”
Students find out if they got in on March 31.
(Thanks to my colleague Paul Donsky for forwarding me this interesting tidbit)
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By Steve
February 10, 2005 01:10 PM | Link to this
Harvard is the Duke of the north? Who really wants to go there? Better than Harvard and closer to home (+ 1st rate barbeque AND basketball). Why would anyone go to Harvard when they could go to Duke?
By Todd
February 10, 2005 01:50 PM | Link to this
bc Dukes campus looks like a project development and the BBQ is stringy.
By H Shankwiler
February 10, 2005 02:25 PM | Link to this
Why venture out of state to a very expensive institution when you can get the SAME IF NOT BETTER education and network with some of the schools we have here? Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University are just two world-class institutions that will let your student gain that all-important network and education without having a chunk taken out of your wallet…
By tito
February 11, 2005 08:53 AM | Link to this
Guess you haven’t checked the Emory tuition lately. You’d still need a giant wallet to send your kid there. The best buy is the Univ. of GA if you want to stay in state and tons of smaller schools throughout the country that will remember your kid’s name.
By Amused
February 11, 2005 11:51 AM | Link to this
Just the statement “Duke is the Harvard of the South” tells you that Duke is inferior to Harvard. No one in New England is saying “Harvard is the Duke of the North.” Besides, Harvard has Princeton, Yale, Penn, MIT, etc. to contend with. Duke isn’t even on their radar screen.