According to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, this year marks Harvard’s highest percentage of accepted black students to date. The journal predicts that the class of 2018 will have approximately 170 black students out of a total of 2,023 -- almost 12 percent of the class population. It goes on to stress the fact that American colleges most known for their selectiveness tend to average only 5 to 10 percent black students.
Two high schoolers made headlines for not only receiving acceptance letters from Harvard, but from several Ivy League schools: Kwasi Enin -- who was accepted to all eight Ivy Leagues -- and Avery Coffey, who was accepted to five.
