Harvard’s undergraduate admission applications decreased in number despite other elite schools experiencing record highs, according to a report released Thursday.

The Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced it received 54,008 applicants for the class of 2028, down 5% from the year before, CNN reported. It’s the fewest applicants to Harvard since the class of 2024’s enrollment period during the pandemic.

In December, Harvard College — comprised of the school’s undergraduate programs — released figures showing its early applications had dropped to four-year lows, by 17%.

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