(Fox News) Harvard University suffered a 5% drop in admission applications following its highly publicized antisemitism and plagiarism controversies.
The Ivy League school published data on its incoming Class of 2028 on Thursday, announcing the acceptance of 1,937 students from an application pool of 54,008.
This marks a small downward tick in applications from last year — approximately 3,000 fewer.
People walk through the gate to Harvard Yard at the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Getty Images)
In December of last year, the Harvard early application pool saw a 17% decline from the year before, receiving 7,921 early applications, compared to 9,553 applications in 2022.
The November 1, 2023, application deadline came before Harvard’s then-President Claudine Gay’s congressional testimony that ignited discussions about institutional leaders’ reluctance to adequately condemn antisemitism.
