Legacy acceptance rate at Brown
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Anonymous
| Anyone know the legacy acceptance rate at Brown? DH went there are our high school aged twins are interested in applying! Is it similar to other ivies? |
Anonymous
Brown LOVES their legacies. Also celebrities. |
Anonymous
Celebrity kids too. |
Anonymous
Great! Any idea on what percentage of legacies get offers? |
Anonymous
| OP-these aren't data they publicize--usually you see it only when lawsuits about fair admissions occur. |
Anonymous
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My impression is that it is a bump if you are really engaged as a Brown alum— give consistently, volunteer etc.
Even then it’s hard to tell how much of a bump but I think it’s there. |
Anonymous
No they don't. Their legacy is as low as Hopkins which has no legacy preference--8%. Harvard has a 34% legacy rate. Anecdotally, we have two families with a Brown alum parent on our block and none of their kids (really good students) were accepted. |
Anonymous
^ true. Brown's legacy numbers are lower than many public universities. |
Anonymous
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Google of "Brown legacy rate" returns this as the first link:
https://www.brown.edu/news/2024-03-05/admissions#:~:text=In%20the%20Class%20of%202027,than%20that%20of%20average%20matriculants. The first sentence of the highlighted text is "In the Class of 2027, 8% of students are legacies." |
Anonymous
Correct. Brown's is statistically a non-advantage. It's 8% which is the same as 'non-legacy' schools. On the other hand, look at these legacy numbers: Vanderbilt 31% Princeton legacy 31% Georgetown legacy 12% Harvard 34% Yale 14% Stanford 14% Northwestern 10% |
Anonymous
Yep. Brown has some of the lowest legacy acceptance rates out there. |
Anonymous
the article that person linked shows it's not a major factor at Brown anymore. " According to the summary, the portion of Brown applicants and matriculants who are legacies has declined — the share of legacy applicants decreased by one-quarter over the last six years, and the share of legacy students in Brown’s enrolled classes declined by about 30%. " |
Anonymous
| OP-- sorry it won't help. Harvard or Princeton, however, they'd be shoe-ins. Lots of disappointed Brown alum out there with rejected kids. |
Anonymous
| Our kid’s cc at private said Harvard legacy won’t matter unlesss we’re big donors (which we’re not). Surprised to hear view here that that’s mistaken. |
Anonymous
| Brown actually used to offer free college counseling to kids of alums— I assume that was in place of a legacy bump in admissions— but they stopped even that a few years ago |