Gaining admissions to the nation’s most elite colleges and universities is an ever-more competitive endeavor, with a tiny fraction of places available for the tens of thousands who apply. This spring, Harvard admitted 2,037 applicants from a pool of 39,041 to the class of 2020. At Stanford, 2,063 students were admitted from the applicant pool of 43,997.
Read more in Diverse Issues in Higher Education.