하버드 2019학년도 합격률 4.5%로 역대 최저 기록
레귤러 1015명, 얼리 935명
금년도 하버드대 총 비용 6만 9607달러
용인외대 부고 하버드 합격자 2명 배출
하버드 대학이 3월 28일 2019학년 대학 정시 합격자 1015명에게 합격을 통보했다.
이에 앞서 하버드 대학은 지난 해 12월 얼리로 935명을 선발했다. 이로써 하버드 대학의 레귤러와 얼리 합산 합격률은 4.5%로 집계됐다. 이 수치는 하버드 대학 역사상 가장 낮은 합격률이다. 하버드대 합격률은 2018년 4.6%, 2017년 5.2% 2016년 5.2%로 갈수록 낮아지고 있다.
반면 얼리 합격률은 13.4%로 레귤러 및 전체 합격률에 비해 많이 높다.
지금까지 한국 학생 가운데 하버드대 합격자는 용인외대부고 2명인 것으로 알려졌다. 합격생을 인종별로 보면 아시안계가 25.4%, 아프리카계 14.8%, 라틴계 12.4%, 인디언 1.8%, 하와이안 6% 등이다.
한편 하버드 대학 등록금 등 총비용(학비+기숙사비+식비 등)은 6만 9607달러로 지난해 6만 7580달러보다 3%올랐다. 2016-17 학년도에 총비용은 6만 달러였고 2010-11년도 총비용은 5만 달러였으며 2005-2006년에는 4만달러였다.
다음은 하버드 대학 신문인 크림슨 기사다. 원문을 보려면 다음을 클릭하면 된다.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/3/29/2023-admit-numbers/
A record-low 4.50 percent of applicants to Harvard College received admissions offers to the Class of 2023, with 1,950 of 43,330 candidates securing places in the class.
The College notified 1,015 students of their acceptances in the regular decision cycle at 7 p.m. Thursday evening. They join 935 applicants admitted through the College’s early action program in December.
This year’s admissions rate is the lowest in College history, down from 4.59 percentlast year. This year marks the fifth consecutive application cycle in which the percentage of accepted applicants has decreased. The total number of admitted students in the Class of 2023 has also decreased slightly from last year’s 1,962.
“The Class of 2023 is remarkably accomplished and promising by any standard,” Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said in a press release Thursday. “Reading their applications and getting to know these individuals through their unique experiences and talents inspires great confidence for the future of Harvard College and our society.”
The admitted class includes six veterans and 41 students who indicated an interest in ROTC, an increase from previous years, according to Fitzsimmons. In comparison, the Class of 2022 included just one veteran and 30 students interested in ROTC.
“It’s been a priority, but we haven’t had as much success as we had this year,” Fitzsimmons said in an interview Thursday morning. “This is a significant increase.”
In addition, 650 admitted students — roughly a third of the class — indicated interest in pursuing community service as an extracurricular activity.
“Community service and public service is really part of Harvard’s foundational identity. It’s who we are,” Fitzsimmons said. “More people seem to be interested in making a difference in terms of public service and community service.”
The percentage of Asian-American admits increased to 25.4 percent, from 22.7 percent last year — the first time a non-white racial demographic has exceeded one quarter of the admitted class.
The percentage of Latinx admits increased to 12.4 percent from last year’s 12.2 percent while the percentage of Native American and Native Hawaiian admits increased to 2.6 percent, up from last year’s 2.4 percent.
The percentages of African-American admits and first-generation college students decreased by 0.7 and 0.9 percentage points, respectively. The admitted class is 14.8 percent African American and 16.4 percent of the admits will be the first in their families to attend college.
These demographic shifts come amid an ongoing lawsuit brought against Harvard in 2013 by anti-affirmative action advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions that alleges the College’s race-conscious admissions policies unlawfully discriminate against Asian-American applicants. The case went to trial in October 2018; Judge Allison D. Burroughs is expected to release her ruling sometime this year.
Fitzsimmons said in Thursday’s interview that he thinks the increase in Asian-American admits is “the normal course of events.”
“As it turns out, there was an increase in the number of Asian-American applications as well, and that’s something we would expect literally over the next generation,” he said.
Fitzsimmons also said the scrutiny that personal ratings — numerical scores assigned to Harvard hopefuls that evaluate them on qualities like humor and grit— have received did not affect admissions results.
“The fundamental principles of how we evaluate applications has not changed for a very long time, and did not change this year,” he said.
Every state and 89 countries are represented in the admitted class, with the percentage of international students rising 0.3 percentage points to 12.3 percent of the admitted class.
Approximately 21.7 percent of admitted students come from the mid-Atlantic states, 19.6 percent from the South, 17.3 percent from the Western and Mountain states, 16.6 percent from New England, 11.8 percent from the Midwest, and 13 percent from the U.S territories and abroad.
Women and men are equally represented in the incoming class, at 50 percent each.
Current projections from the Financial Aid Office suggest more than half of the Class of 2023 will receive some form of need-based financial aid, with an average family contribution of $12,000. Projections suggest that 20 percent of the class — students whose families have an annual income of under $65,000 — will not be required to contribute to the cost of attendance. Those students will also receive a $2,000 start-up grant to help with move-in costs and other expenses.
Along with their acceptance letters, admitted students will receive an invitation to Visitas — the College’s visiting weekend for accepted students — which will last from April 27 to April 29. Students have until May 1 to accept, defer, or decline their offers of admissions.
"You want a university like this to inspire people to make the most of their talents and opportunities, so that's really what all these efforts are about,” Fitzsimmons said. “We're always a work in progress.”
Correction: March 29, 2019
A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the average grant to families receiving need-based financial aid is $12,000. In fact, $12,000 is the average contribution families on financial aid make towards enrollment costs.
