Here's what Harvard's class of 2021 will look like

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At roughly 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, hundreds of thousands of anxious high schoolers found out if they were accepted into the Ivy League.

From a pool of 39,506 applicants, Harvard accepted 2,056 students for an acceptance rate of 5.2%.

Here's what the incoming class of 2021 will look like, according to an announcement from the school.

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Gender

• Men — 50.8%
• Women — 49.2% 

Race and Ethnicity

• Asian-American — 22.2%
• African-American — 14.6%
• Latino — 11.6%
• Native American — 1.9%
• Native Hawaiian — .5% 

1st Generation Students — 15.1%

Geography

• Mid-Atlantic States — 21.4%
• South — 18.7%
• New England — 16.5%
• Pacific — 15.7%
• Midwest/Central/Mountain — 15%
• US Territories and Abroad — 11.7%

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March 31, 2017 at 11:50PM

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