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Demonstrators protest Harvard’s admissions policy outside the federal courthouse in Boston on the trial’s opening day three weeks ago. Now that the trial is over, only one person’s opinion ...
After threatening nearly $3 billion in federal funding cuts at Harvard University, the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation into Harvard’s admissions, aiming to determine whether ...
Roughly 85 percent of admits accepted their offers to enroll in Harvard College’s Class of 2029, the admissions office ...
Harvard's applications dipped this past year following then-President Claudine Gay's House hearing about antisemitism on campus. Getty Images Harvard is learning an ancient lesson: You reap what ...
BOSTON — The deliberations that take place inside 86 Brattle St., a red-brick building where Harvard University’s admissions committee convenes, have very much stayed inside 86 Brattle St.
First-year students are moving into Harvard University Tuesday as the institution continues to wage legal battles with the Trump administration.
Soon enough, Harvard will need to adopt some kind of rational, democratic, and fully transparent admissions process in which decisions—though likely heartbreaking—will make sense to all who apply.
New Harvard admissions data shows early applications have declined by 17% year-on-year. The applications were due November 1, before Harvard President Claudine Gay testified in Congress.
Another Harvard admissions officer, who reads about 1,100 applications a year, testified about a student who was a Tibetan refugee and deeply involved in the Free Tibet movement; her application ...
A nonprofit, Students for Fair Admissions, sued Harvard in 2014 alleging the Ivy League school discriminated against Asian American students, who the group said are admitted at a lower rate than ...
In earlier testimony, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 affirmed that Harvard has not, in recent history, relied on race when calculating the personal ranking.