Harvard University
MA · Private · Northeast · National university · Top 10 tier · 6,675 undergraduates (medium)
Admission rates
Latest admit rates
† Not reported by round: this school publishes an overall admit rate but not applicant and admit counts for each round, so early and regular rates can’t be shown.
Trends, Fall 2019–Fall 2025
Admission rates
Early plans
Fall 2027 applicants
Harvard no longer releases early-round figures. Admissions statistics ↗
Testing
Testing policy
Superscoring
What this means:
- SAT
- Superscores
- ACT
- Does not superscore (highest single sitting)
Source ↗ · checked Nov 3, 2026
Required. SAT: highest section scores across dates are noted, though Harvard says it does not create a superscore. ACT: strongest sitting; you may send an ACT superscore report, but Harvard also receives your best single sitting. No superscoring across old and new ACT versions.
How to send scores
Self-report accepted; official scores only after admission/enrollment
Send all scores? Score Choice allowed
School’s words: “Applicants may provide self-reported test scores. ... Admitted students who self-report SAT and ACT scores and decide to enroll at Harvard College will be required to submit official SAT and ACT test scores upon enrolling. ... You are free to use the College Board Score Choice option or the similar option offered by the ACT.”
Source 1 ↗ · Source 2 ↗ · checked Nov 3, 2026
Students submitting scores
‡ Est. % submitting scores adds the share of enrolled first-years who submitted the SAT to the share who submitted the ACT.
Score ranges (middle 50%)
Enrolled first-years who submitted scores, Fall 2025. A quarter scored below the range and a quarter above.
Harvard's Common Data Set reports SAT Reading & Writing and Math ranges separately but leaves the combined SAT range blank. Harvard's admissions statistics page does not publish an SAT range. Its testing FAQ gives only 10th–90th percentile scores from the last year Harvard required testing (Reading & Writing 670–790, Math 680–800, ACT 31–36), an older year and a different percentile range, so those figures are not shown as current.
Source: Harvard admissions statistics ↗ · Harvard testing FAQ ↗
Trends, Fall 2019–Fall 2025
Share of enrolled students submitting scores
SAT composite, middle 50%
Not reported in any year shown.
ACT composite, middle 50%
Year-by-year data, Fall 2019–Fall 2025
| CDS year | Admitted | Admit rate | ED rate | Est. % submitting | % SAT | % ACT | SAT mid-50 | ACT mid-50 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | 2,009 | 4.6% | Not reported | 100% | 71% | 45% | Not reported | 33-35 | |
| 2020-21 | 2,015 | 5% | Not reported | 100% | 72% | 45% | ERW 720-780, Math 740-800 | 33-35 | |
| 2021-22 | 2,318 | 4% | Not reported | 85% | 54% | 31% | ERW 730-780, Math 750-800 | 33-36 | |
| 2022-23 | 1,984 | 3.2% | Not reported | 83% | 55% | 28% | ERW 730-780, Math 760-800 | 34-36 | |
| 2023-24 ↗ | 1,965 | 3.5% | Not reported | 74% | 52% | 22% | ERW 740-780, Math 760-800 | 34-36 | |
| 2024-25 | 1,970 | 3.6% | Not reported | 73% | 54% | 19% | ERW 740-780, Math 770-800 | 34-36 | |
| 2025-26 | 2,003 | 4.2% | Not reported | 100% | 79% | 27% | ERW 720-770, Math 730-790 | 33-35 |
Waitlist admit rate
Share of students who stayed on the waitlist and were later admitted, by entering class.
Test policy in each Common Data Set
History only. The current policy is under Testing above.
- Fall 2027 Required2025-26 CDS
- Fall 2026 Required2024-25 CDS
- Fall 2025 Required2023-24 CDS
- Fall 2024 Test-optional2022-23 CDSThis form’s own wording says Fall 2023; every CDS here is read as covering the fall two years after its first year.
- Fall 2023 Test-optional2021-22 CDS
- Fall 2022 Required2020-21 CDSAs the school reported it. Not borne out: in the class that entered Fall 2022, 55% submitted SAT and 28% ACT (2022-23 CDS).
- Fall 2021 Required2019-20 CDSAs the school reported it. Not borne out: in the class that entered Fall 2021, 54% submitted SAT and 31% ACT (2021-22 CDS).