How much of a bump do you get from legacy or athletic recruit status?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amherst got rid of the legacy preference a year or two ago, so no bump there.

I’m the OP and luckily I went to Williams. Hopefully my kids can take advantage of the legacy preference before that’s eliminated (as I’m sure it will be).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amherst got rid of the legacy preference a year or two ago, so no bump there.

I’m the OP and luckily I went to Williams. Hopefully my kids can take advantage of the legacy preference before that’s eliminated (as I’m sure it will be).

I think the other schools might realize it's better not to make the fact a "policy" but since they are all about equity my dc legacy at bowdoin. 4.0 gpa /9 APS deferred.

[Anonymous]

At Johns Hopkins, recruited athletes (D3 for everything but lacrosse) receive likely letters from admissions guaranteeing their admission. Legacies get nothing as it is not considered at all. That’s a pretty stark difference.

[Anonymous]

Legacy doesn't matter much if the parents aren't donors. Some schools consider a boost for engaged, small time donors, but a lot only care if the parents are big donors. Sister and husband donated 5k a year to an Ivy and kid was deferred then rejected. Ended up at UVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Legacy doesn't matter much if the parents aren't donors. Some schools consider a boost for engaged, small time donors, but a lot only care if the parents are big donors. Sister and husband donated 5k a year to an Ivy and kid was deferred then rejected. Ended up at UVA.

Legacy with a 3.9+ and at least median test score will get you in most T15s as a legacy

but you have to be at 50% or higher on test scores

[Anonymous]

Athletic Recruits - my DS is a recruited athlete in college. In our experience, there was no universal answer as to how much help you get with admissions just by being a recruited athlete. Outside of football and basketball, or being the #1 recruit in the country in your specific sport, we found that grades are still important. Some coaches were able to guarantee that they could get my DS into the school simply by letting admissions know he was one of his recruits. Some coaches would want 8 players per year, but could only guarantee that 3 would be admitted - the other 5 would get "marked" by the coach, would go through a pre-read that was favorable but might still not get through admissions. I know of one baseball player who was recruited by a Big Ten coach but didn't make it through admissions - the school is fairly selective. He ended up at a CAA school that has much higher admit rates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Legacy doesn't matter much if the parents aren't donors. Some schools consider a boost for engaged, small time donors, but a lot only care if the parents are big donors. Sister and husband donated 5k a year to an Ivy and kid was deferred then rejected. Ended up at UVA.

Harvard admitted legacies at a 33% rate. They aren’t all donors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard has 42% legacy admits.

But how many got a "bump"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are being recruited by the coach, it’s pretty much a separate list.

But that list is harder to get on than getting into Harvard alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Legacy doesn't matter much if the parents aren't donors. Some schools consider a boost for engaged, small time donors, but a lot only care if the parents are big donors. Sister and husband donated 5k a year to an Ivy and kid was deferred then rejected. Ended up at UVA.

Legacy with a 3.9+ and at least median test score will get you in most T15s as a legacy

but you have to be at 50% or higher on test scores

My sibling who was top 10 percent of FCPS HS class and admitted at WM/UVA/VaTech was rejected by Georgetown. Our parent was a graduate who donated nothing to the alma mater. Just saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amherst got rid of the legacy preference a year or two ago, so no bump there.

I’m the OP and luckily I went to Williams. Hopefully my kids can take advantage of the legacy preference before that’s eliminated (as I’m sure it will be).

I think the other schools might realize it's better not to make the fact a "policy" but since they are all about equity my dc legacy at bowdoin. 4.0 gpa /9 APS deferred.

this cycle?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amherst got rid of the legacy preference a year or two ago, so no bump there.

I’m the OP and luckily I went to Williams. Hopefully my kids can take advantage of the legacy preference before that’s eliminated (as I’m sure it will be).

I think the other schools might realize it's better not to make the fact a "policy" but since they are all about equity my dc legacy at bowdoin. 4.0 gpa /9 APS deferred.

this cycle?

yup

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard has 42% legacy admits.

But how many got a "bump"?

If you got in, it was a bump. The ones who didn't get in had no bump.

[Anonymous]

The fact that Harvard has a high share of legacies attending only tells you so much
Those kids are probably more likely to attend if admitted and their parents are probably better able to play the college admissions game to make their kids top candidates.

It is not as much of a boost as being a recruited athlete.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fact that Harvard has a high share of legacies attending only tells you so much
Those kids are probably more likely to attend if admitted and their parents are probably better able to play the college admissions game to make their kids top candidates.

It is not as much of a boost as being a recruited athlete.

It would be interesting to know what the admission rate is at Harvard for kids of Yale and Princeton grads. Then you could suss out the difference that legacy makes versus just privilege.