Harvard’s application crash should scare other elite schools on antisemitism

Harvard is learning an ancient lesson: You reap what you sow.

On Thursday, the college announced that applications dropped 5% from last year.

This, after early-admission applications fell 17%, to a four-year low.

And it’s all a natural, rational response to the series of scandals that exposed Harvard’s leaders as prioritizing woke ideology over excellence, free speech and student safety.

The first blows: A wave of campus antisemitism after the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, followed by then-President Claudine Gay’s disastrous House hearing in December, where she defended hateful intimidation at anti-Israel protests as “free speech.”

Then came the flood of allegations of plagiarism: First against Gay (which the Harvard Corp. tried to cover up), then against Harvard’s chief DEI officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, then Shirley Greene, another school DEI officer.