To be clear, Harvard did release some admissions data earlier this year. We know for instance that the number of applicants was down this year by about 5 percent. We also know that the school accepted just 3.59% of applicants.
What we don’t know is the thing that everyone has been wondering about. What happened to the demographics of the incoming class in the wake of the Supreme Court decision ruling out Affirmative Action. While a number of other schools have released their data, Harvard so far has not despite promising to do so. A campus activist group has been demanding the data.
Back in December, in a major break with precedent, Harvard withheld the race and ethnicity statistics of early admits. Hiding behind legal challenges, the University claimed it would still report the data after the deadline to commit to Harvard in May. And yet, four months later, surprise, surprise,…
