The Harvard College acceptance rate fell to 3.43 percent this year, with just 1,968 out of the 57,435 applicants to the Class of 2025 receiving an acceptance letter.
For some in the college admissions field, this was an indicator of Harvardâs excellence and high quality academics; for others, it was a sign of the Universityâs elitism and unwillingness to extend its resources to educate more students.
David L. Kirp â a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, who recently wrote an op-ed titled âWhy Stanford Should Clone Itselfâ â said the selectivity of elite institutions embodies the opposite of âwhat higher education is supposed to be about.â