There are two types of early applications: Early Decision, which is binding and means committing to enroll upon acceptance, and Early Action, which is non-binding. Harvard’s Restricted Early Action falls somewhere between these two, as applicants may apply to public universities but are ...
In 2023, Harvard welcomed just 1,965 students out of the 56,937 who applied, for an acceptance rate of just 3.5%. Of the almost 60,000 applicants for Harvard’s Class of 2027, 9,544 of them applied early action; of those, 721 were accepted for a 7.6% early action acceptance rate....
On Thursday, Harvard said that it accepted 740 students via early action out of a poll of 9,406 applicants, or an acceptance rate of 7.8%. Early action decisions typically have a higher acceptance rate than the regular admissions round. Harvard will send acceptances for its regular-decision ap...
That means that students seeking entry into the classes of 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 won't need to send Harvard an SAT or ACT score as part of their application. "Students who do not submit standardized test scores will not be disadvantaged in their application process," said William R. ...