Two Classes in Brief

Yale '55  Harvard '55  Yale '54  Harvard '54 Number of applicants  3200  3200  3000  3000 Number in class  1169  1150  1049  1150 Number of interviews  2000  2500  2000  2000 Geographical Distribution: New England  28.6%  38.1%  28.4%  44.4% Middle Atlantic  37.8  28.1  35.9  26.3 Middle West  17.2  16.7  18.9  14.0 Far West  6.3  7.8  6.8  6.0 South  8.9  6.3  8.1  6.0 Foreign and others  1.2  3.0  1.9  3.3 Private Schools  56%  43.3%  63%  50% Public Schools  44%  56.7%  37%  50% Scholarship students  26%  26.9%  28%  24% Number alumni committees  200  90  300  90