As Ivy League colleges diversify, a Mackay, QLD native gains admission

This year, Harvard admitted a record high 20.3 per cent of students from modest or low-income backgrounds. Also, for the first time in a decade, a majority (50.1 per cent) of its admissions were female. There’s even an argument it's becoming so diverse it's sidelining merit in its admissions process, but that's another story.