Harvard early admission applications drop 17% during bombshell antisemitism claims

Harvard’s early admission applications have slid to a four-year low as the elite university continues to face backlash for its administration’s unwillingness to condemn antisemitism on campus — while its rivals see gains.

The Ivy League school saw a 17% drop in applications from students applying through early admission, with just 7,921 high school seniors seeking to secure their spot, compared to the 9,553 that did so last year, according to figures released by the university.

That is the smallest figure since the pandemic began, but still exceeds the number of early applications submitted each year from 2017 through 2019.

Its competitors, meanwhile, saw increases in the number of students seeking early admissions.

Yale University counted 7,856 early applications this year — a 1.4% increase from last year and the second-highest number in the school’s history, it announced Friday.

The University of Pennsylvania, which has also come under fire after its former president failed to assert that calls for genocide of Jews constituted harassment under its code of conduct, saw 500 more applications than just one year prior, Bloomberg reports.