Number Crunch

The End of Standardized Testing Caused a Boom in Harvard Applications

The wait-list for the Ivy Leagues just got a little longer

Marker Editors
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2 min readMar 24, 2021

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42%: That’s the spike in freshmen applications Harvard University received, year-over-year, for next fall’s entering class according to the Wall Street Journal. That’s more than 57,000 applications.

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