Record 6 M'sians admitted as Harvard undergrads

• Editor's Note: Updated to add Alyssa Yap Xin Yi, who was initially not listed by the Harvard College alumni interviewers in Malaysia because she was interviewed in Singapore.

Six Malaysians have been admitted into undergraduate programmes at the prestigious Harvard College for the upcoming academic year, the most in the country’s history.

The students were selected out of 61,220 applicants with the acceptance rate of the Class of 2026 the lowest in Harvard’s history at 3.19 percent.

“We are thrilled that...