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Harvard College saw undergraduate applications drop by 5 percent this year, while other Ivy League schools, including Yale and Dartmouth, boasted a record increase of 10 percent.
Harvard received 54,008 undergraduate applications, about 5 percent fewer than last year, following the resignation of former president Claudine Gay amid plagiarism accusations and backlash over anti-Semitism events.
Applications to Brown University were also down by nearly 5 percent from last year, but other Ivy League schools saw a record rise in applicants, according to The New York Times.
Yale University and Dartmouth College received applications up by 10 percent from last year, while M.I.T., which also made headlines for anti-Israel protests on campus after the October 7 attack, and experienced its own plagiarism scandal saw applications rise by 5 percent.
Columbia, which declined an invitation to testify before congress alongside the presidents of Harvard, UPenn, and MIT, also saw a 5 percent rise despite repeated accusations of antisemitism on campus.
Cornell and Princeton decided not to release the number of applicants or the admission rates for this admissions cycle.
Harvard College saw undergraduate applications drop by 5 percent this year, while other Ivy League schools, including Yale and Dartmouth, boasted a record increase of 10 percent
Harvard received 54,008 undergraduate applications, about 5 percent fewer than last year, following the backlash over anti-Semitism scandals. Demonstrators are seen at Harvard on October 14, 2023
Yale University(left) and Dartmouth College(right) received applications up by 10 percent from last year
Early applications to Harvard were down 17 percent, and regular ones dropped by almost 3 percent this year. The school accepted 1,937 students to its class of 2028, about 3.6 percent of applicants.
Despite the decline, it marked the fourth year in a row that it received more than 50,000 applications, according to the Harvard Crimson.
The drop in applications follows accusations of anti-Semitism on campus at Harvard, which started with a student letter asserting that Israel was 'entirely responsible' for the October 7 attacks.
The student branch of the group, Students for Justice in Palestine, published the controversial letter blaming Israel for the Palestinian extremists' terror plot.
The letter launched an outcry from many Harvard alumni and led to
