Our Unofficial Admissions Predictions

Where were you on March 31st, 2008 at 5 P.M? If you are in the class of 2012 here’s to betting you were locked away in your room, sitting in front of your computer screen, trigger finger eagerly refreshing away while you scoured your g-mail account for one fateful e-mail: your admissions decision.

But tomorrow you can lean back and relax, safe in your knowledge that the poor soul crossing all fingers and toes is not you.

Don’t lie though; we know you’re at least a little interested in knowing who will be part of the lucky ’13. At least we here at Flyby are, and we’re going to make it our business to stalk the class of ’13 like we stalk central administrators…and celebrities with twitter.

To begin, we have our own Official Unofficial Class of 2013 Admissions Predictions (drum roll, please):

Admittance rate: a record low of 6.7% (29,000 applicants divided by 1,948 spots offered last year)

Socioeconomic diversity: record high percentage of class on financial aid (the economy. period.)

Cultural/geographical/ethnic/gender/diversity: the “most” diverse class Harvard has seen (only to be defeated by the classes of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017… and infinitely on…it's pretty much an admissions press release staple)

Stay tuned tomorrow for official numbers!

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