The chart details below the student numbers enrolled at Harvard College from various countries in Asia for the 7 year period for the academic years 2009 - 2016. It shows that admissions from Asia are declining. In the peak year, '12-'13, there were 152 of this cohort on campus. In the current year, there are only 127, a reduction of 25 students, 16% of peak and almost 20% of prior year's' average. It looks as though South Korean and Singapore?Malaysia admissions have been the most adversely affected, with Korean campus presence declining from a peak of 47 in '12-'13 to only 33 in '15 - 16, a 30% reduction; Singapore has gone from a high of 22 to 11, a 50% reduction; Malaysia has gone from 10 to only 2. And, both of these declines are year-over-year and not just one-off.
I wonder whether the domestic US itself now supplies a sufficiently diverse and cultural "Asian" ethnic community so that Harvard admissions no longer actually has to go to Asia itself to get this cohort. What is lost in Asia can now be replaced by other countries.
YEAR: 09-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14 14-15 15-16
China 36 41 40 50 51 49 45
Hong Kong 2 3 4 5 4 3 9
Taiwan 2 1 4 5 4 6 3
All China 40 45 48 60 59 58 57
S Korea 42 40 47 47 43 41 33
Japan 5 6 7 9 13 10 12
Singapore 22 21 18 18 17 14 11
Thailand 8 6 7 8 8 9 7
Vietnam 5 6 6 6 5 5 5
Malaysia 10 9 5 4 1 2 2
Subtotal 92 88 90 92 87 81 70
All Total 132 133 138 152 146 139 127
Who replaces the Asia students in the international pool? Brazil has gone from 4 to 17 over this period, and Australia has gone from 20 to 32. Again, year-over-year growth taken from these countries. I believe, on this evidence, it will be harder than ever for overseas Asians to get in. We here in the US have sufficient Asian populations to suffice for diversity in admissions from this ethnic cohort.
Source: http://www.hio.harvard.edu/statistics
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