"Overall, we admit about 14 percent of the applicant pool," he said.
Liwei Chen, a third year graduate student in Chemistry from China, transferred to Harvard from Washington University. He said admission is rigorous. He applied twice.
"The second year I made it," he said.
The economics department, which earned the number one ranking in a 1997 U.S. News and World Report survey, is among the larger and more prominent of the graduate study programs. They accepted 25 of 500 applicants--a scant 5 percent.
Of the 400 people who applied to the English department, between 12 and 15 were accepted.
Of the 100 people who applied to the Department of East Asian Studies, between 10 and 15 were finally accepted.
In the government department, about 500 people usually apply, and approximately 30 are accepted.
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