Class of 2025 Admissions Update
With Harvard College releasing its regular-admission statistics last month, the picture of the Class of 2025 is now much clearer.
Including both early-action and regular-action applicants, the College offered admission to a total of 13 applicants from Alabama last month, and waitlisted five others. Eight of the admitted students and two of the waitlisted ones came from our club; the rest were from the Harvard Club of the Mid-Gulf Coast’s geographical area.
The schools represented by the admitted and waitlisted students from our club: Hewitt-Trussville High, Hoover High, Indian Springs, Muscle Shoals High, Ramsay High, Spain Park High, and Thompson High (two admitted applicants).
This year’s admission rate at the College was the lowest ever: 3.4% (1,968 admitted from a pool of 57,435). The total number of applications for the Class of 2025 was 42.7% higher than for the Class of 2024.
“This year’s admitted class hails from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and from 94 countries,” The Harvard Gazette wrote. International students comprise 12.2% of the class; students from the South, 19.8%. Nineteen military veterans were also admitted.
Roughly 20.4% of the admitted students qualified for federal Pell grants, which are typically awarded to applicants from lower-income backgrounds. Students who “will be in the first generation of their family to graduate from a four-year college or the equivalent,” the Gazette continued, “represent 20.7% of the class, compared with 19.4% in 2020.” Accord to the Gazette, Harvard projects 55% of the Class of 2025 will receive need-based grants, paying an average of just $12,000 annually per family and 20% of the Class of 2025 will attend Harvard completely free.
Deep-felt thanks to all the alums who volunteered to interview applicants during this outermost of outlier years. And congratulations to all the students admitted from our club’s geographical area. Once we know their final decisions about matriculation, we’ll start providing profiles in the newsletter.