For the application year 2024, Harvard University's Early Action acceptance rate is 8.74%, with 692 accepted out of 7,921 applicants. This marks a notable drop from the previous year’s rate of 13.9%, where 895 were accepted from a smaller pool of 6,424 applicants. Historically, the acceptance rates have shown a significant decline over the past few years, decreasing from 16.51% in 2019 to the current rate. In 2020, the acceptance rate was 14.87%, and it has consistently trended downward since then, illustrating an increasingly competitive Early Action process at Harvard.