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“How Harvard gets its best and brightest” in summary
Harvard is an elite college. Every year, Harvard has been stepping up its effort to attract the best and brightest students to increase the prestige of its campus.
For the new academic year, starting in September, Harvard received a near – record 23,000 applications. Of these, it accepted a mere 2,100 – or just 9%. Some 80% of the chosen ultimately decided to attend Harvard.
Harvard has a lot of ways to attract talents from all stage of the US and from abroad and they also have new financial aid policies for low – income high school students.
Harvard’s admissions committee has a three-part of the battle plan. The first phase begins in the spring, when Harvard mails letters to 70,000- or-so top of high school juniors to suggest them consider applying to Harvard.
The second phase of the battle plan: sifting through the thousands of applications. Every application is rated on a scale of one (the best ever) to six (the worst ever). Then, in February, the applications are divided up geographically among twenty subcommittees, they have so many people involved, lots of checks and balances before the final decisions have been made.
The third phase: an all-out push to convince the chosen few to attend Harvard. They start calling the admitted. In mid to late April over half of those who were accepted typically show up at Harvard for an elaborate weekend.
They believe that these synergies will develop the talents of these students to a much greater degree and then will be given back a lot more to America and the world. That’s helped drive Harvard to find the best and the brightest.