How Harvard Admissions Actually Works

What’s the REAL way of getting into Harvard? Is it just good grades? Oh, you know that’s not it! Or is it with extracurricular activities? Nope, not it again! We both know there’s definitely a lot more to it than those two! Find out exactly what it is Harvard looks for in this video!

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Here are the actual factors Harvard admissions officers look for! And no, the biggest factor actually ISN’T having your parents donating to the university!

9 - Legacy Status
Having parents who went to Harvard DRAMATICALLY increases your chances of getting in. But that’s something Harvard and other Ivy League universities are less than willing to admit. The whole legacy concept has been controversial from the beginning. Applying to college as a legacy is like having a superpower. It’s been estimated to double or quadruple one’s chances of getting into a highly selective school. It’s also roughly equivalent to a 160-point boost on the SAT! In the early 1900s, universities introduced a preference for legacies. They did that just so they could exclude less desirable applicants, such as immigrants. For instance, Dartmouth created an almost all inclusive legacy admissions policy in 1919. That stated quote “all properly qualified sons of Dartmouth alumni and Dartmouth college officers” would be admitted.
If one or two of your parents went to Harvard, your chances of getting accepted jumps to 33.6%. These legacies were five times more likely to get in than applicants without relatives who went to Harvard! Harvard’s Class of 2022 is made up of over 36% legacy students and the year before, the share of the freshman class was just over 29%.

8 - Harvard Endowment
Surprise surprise, if you have your super-rich parents donate money like crazy to Harvard, your chances of admission just went up! But remember Aunt Becky from full house? Federal prosecutors brought charges against her and 49 other people for a college cheating scandal in 2019. No matter how much money they donated, it probably wasn’t gonna get their kids in. So they just decided to do the old fashion way of bribery. Those parents allegedly paid a collective $25 million dollars to help their kids get into top colleges such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and USC. Unlike the people who got caught by the FBI, America’s billionaires don’t have to break the law to help their kids get into Harvard. If they didn’t go to Harvard, they can wield their money instead through donations. For example, Les Wexner, the billionaire who owns and controls Victoria’s Secret, didn’t go to Harvard. But he started donating to Harvard back in 1989! He gave Harvard between one and a half million to 2.1 million dollars each year from 2003 to 2012. In 2013, Wexner’s upped his gift dramatically, donating $8.5 million to the university, as part of a long-planned building endowment. Nothing weird here, right? But that same year also happened to be the year the first of his four children started attending Harvard. Obviously, the donations kept happening. Wexner’s three other children enrolled at the university in 2014, 2015, and 2017. Having the last name “Wexner” at Harvard where your dad regularly donates millions definitely helps! Another example is real estate mogul Charles Kushner. He’s a graduate of New York University. He reportedly gave $2.5 million to Harvard before his son Jared Kushner was admitted to Harvard! In case you didn’t know it, Jared Kushner is married to Ivanka Trump, and he’s a senior advisor to his father-in-law President Trump! Having parents that donated a lot of money, your acceptance would be around 40%. And what if your parents went to Harvard AND they also donated a lot of money? Your chances of getting in just jumped above 70%!

7 - Dean’s List
Yep, it helps to be on the dean’s list. But it’s NOT the regular old dean’s list we’re talking about here that someone with great grades can get on. We’re talking about the Harvard Dean of Admissions’s actual special interest list. If you’re on that special list, well…..you’re pretty much guaranteed for admission. So how do you get on? Well, we just talked about it actually.
According to emails uncovered, donations definitely come with certain perks. The “Dean’s Interest List,” is a special and confidential list of applicants Harvard compiles every admissions cycle. Although Harvard closely guards the details, applicants on that list are often related to or of interest to top donors.

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