The Boston Globe

At Harvard, Significantly More Black Students Are Admitted Than Enrolled

June 14, 2018

Nearly one in six, or 15 percent, of students that Harvard University offered admission to this spring were African-American. But step onto Harvard’s campus, and the student body looks far less diverse.  In fact, according to the most recent federal data available, just 8 percent of Harvard’s undergraduates are black and just over 9 percent of the incoming freshmen last year were black.  So what happens between admissions and the first day of classes?

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