Harvard College Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said in an interview last Thursday that the College is committed to “transparency” in releasing admissions statistics.

Not so for Harvard. College Transitions, a firm that helps students with school admissions, said the admission rate for legacies at Harvard is five times that of non-legacies.

And this is not just at the Ivy League schools which host single-digit acceptance rates. Harvard’s acceptance rate, for example, was less than 4% for the past two years.

This fall, Harvard’s admission rate reached an infinitesimal low of 3.19 percent.

The U.S. is home to some of the world's top colleges and universities, but gaining admission to these prestigious institutions is no easy feat.

At Harvard, the admissions committee made a conscious effort to ensure there would not be a “dramatic drop-off” in its minority acceptance rate in any year.

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