The acceptance rate for transfer students has been approximately 1%. The average high school grade point average ( GPA) was 4.18. For the undergraduate class of 2023, the middle 50% range of SAT scores of enrolled freshmen was 710–770 for reading and writing and 750–800 for math, while the middle 50% range of the ACT composite score was 33–35. For the undergraduate class of 2025, Harvard had 57,435 applications and accepted 1,968 (3.4% acceptance rate). Massachusetts Hall (1720) is the oldest building on the Harvard campusĪdmission is based on academic prowess, extracurricular activities, and personal qualities. Since the 1970s, Harvard has been responsible for undergraduate matters for women, though women's Harvard diplomas were countersigned by the President of Radcliffe until a final merger in 1999. Radcliffe College, established in 1879, originally paid Harvard faculty to repeat their lectures for women. The body known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College retains its traditional name despite having governance of the entire university. Harvard College is currently responsible for undergraduate admissions, advising, housing, student life, athletics, and other undergraduate matters except instruction, which is the purview of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Harvard began granting higher degrees in the late eighteenth century, and it was increasingly styled Harvard University, even as Harvard College was increasingly thought of as the university's undergraduate division in particular. The Indian College was active from 1640 to no later than 1693, but it was a minor addition not operated in federation with Harvard according to the English model.
HARVARD TUITION AND LIVING EXPENSES SERIES
Harvard's founders may have envisioned it as the first in a series of sibling colleges on the English model which would eventually constitute a university-though no further colleges materialized in colonial times. The colleges of England's Oxford and Cambridge Universities are communities within the larger university, each an association of scholars sharing room and board. 1643–1666) "from the Wampanoag … did graduate from Harvard, the first Indian to do so in the colonial period." The Harvard Indian College was established, with the capacity for four or five Native Americans, and in 1665 Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck (c. The school's first students were graduated in 1642. Harvard's first Headmaster was Nathaniel Eaton (1610–1674) in 1639, he also became its first instructor to be dismissed, for overstrict discipline. Three years later, the college was renamed in honor of deceased Charlestown minister John Harvard (1607–1638) who had bequeathed to the school his entire library and half of his monetary estate. In 1638, the college became home for North America's first known printing press, carried by the ship John of London. The school came into existence in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony-though without a single building, instructor, or student.
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