List of Legacy and Non-Legacy Competitive Schools
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Anonymous
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Came across an article in the Chronicle, "Which Colleges Consider Legacies in Their Admissions? Not Just the Ones You're Thinking" published 12/12/23 with data from the US Department of Education. I was curious who was on the list and who was not. It may not be the most up to date as I think some schools have announced changes recently, such as Wesleyan. For the non-legacy schools I looked at those listed in USNWR. These are schools with acceptance rates under 30% minus a few specialty schools. Order is most selective schools on top.
Schools that consider legacy (admit rate less than 30%): Harvard University Columbia University Stanford University Brown University University of Chicago Yale University Dartmouth College Duke University Princeton University Cornell University Northwestern University Swarthmore College University of Pennsylvania Vanderbilt University Colby College Williams College Barnard College Bowdoin College Rice University Claremont McKenna College Tufts University Emory University Grinnell College Tulane University Colgate University Georgetown University Hamilton College (N.Y.) University of Southern California Harvey Mudd College Middlebury College University of Notre Dame Bates College Boston University Haverford College Wellesley College Wesleyan University (Conn.) Colorado College Boston College Carleton College University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Washington and Lee University Pitzer College University of Miami University of Virginia Vassar College Wake Forest University Babson College Denison University Smith College Villanova University University of Richmond Skidmore College University of Tampa Case Western Reserve University Spelman College Schools that do not consider legacy (admit rate less than 30%): CalTech MIT Amherst College Johns Hopking Northeastern Pomona College UCLA Carnegie Mellon Berkeley U.S. Naval Academy Washington University in St. Louis New York University West Point Air Force Academy Davidson College Georgia Tech University of Michigan Hillsdale College UC Irvine University of Florida UC San Diego Berea College Florida State UC Santa Barbara Macalester Scripps |
Anonymous
| What order is it in? |
Anonymous
Lowest admit rate to highest, legacy schools in first list, non-legacy in second list. |
Anonymous
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Washington University in St. Louis 100% considers legacy. See page 13 in the link below ("alumni/ae relation" listed as a "considered" factor)
https://wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/wustl-cds-2022-2023.pdf |
Anonymous
| Wesleyan does not consider legacy. There are others missing. |
Anonymous
True. Carleton also does not consider legacy. |
Anonymous
| Welp...figures my DH went to Hopkins. But DD isn't interested in it anyway. She wants to go to the same school her brother and grandfather went to, so hoping that helps. |
Anonymous
| I would have thought naval academy would consider legacy. Generations of service and all. |
Anonymous
which is literally what OP said |
Anonymous
| Georgetown is so heavily legacy, they could fill the entire class with them. The only admits EA were legacy from our school. |
Anonymous
Same. And finding out you are a maligned race, heterosexual student on their hit list isn’t making it attractive if you are in that group. |
Anonymous
| US Naval Acad? Of course they consider legacy. Don't care what they say -- are you dense? |
Anonymous
What maligned race? |
Anonymous
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While many in the first list may consider, it doesn’t mean that it’s really a thumb on the scale. Am aware of many qualified students who were legacy at a number of these schools but were rejected in ED/EA or deferred them rejected in RD.
Legacy may help but folks shouldn’t bank on it, even if a school claims to consider. |
Anonymous
| Many of these only consider legacy if you apply. ED. Penn, for example. No leg up for RD. |