Legacy acceptance rate at Brown

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Anonymous wrote: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?

Brown LOVES their legacies. Also celebrities.

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.

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%

That’s unfortunate! Where did you get the stats on these other schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Unless those 30% are all big donors Harvard does have a massive endowment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

Brown LOVES their legacies. Also celebrities.

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.

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%

That’s unfortunate! Where did you get the stats on these other schools?

Google

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1. I doubt its 34% for legacies.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I'm sure it depends on where you live. If you live in the DMV or NYC the legacies getting a bump need something else (like big $$ donations) because there are SO MANY legacies around here. From our private, there can be a dozen Harvard legacies who apply in a single year. The couple getting in are often are also VIPs.

If you apply as a Harvard legacy from Montana, your legacy status probably gives you a significant bump because maybe there are only 10 legacies applying state-wide. So if you're a decent candidate and a legacy you're probably a shoe-in.

[Anonymous]

Double legacy family, active alumni participation, consistent (but not big $) giving, child with stats that match Brown's admitted students' stats from well regarded private - waitlisted (soft rejection in my opinion). Same for many classmates. Legacy is not a meaningful boost at Brown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

+1. I doubt its 34% for legacies.

The 34% isn’t an acceptance rate. It is the percent of the freshman class that are legacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Double legacy family, active alumni participation, consistent (but not big $) giving, child with stats that match Brown's admitted students' stats from well regarded private - waitlisted (soft rejection in my opinion). Same for many classmates. Legacy is not a meaningful boost at Brown.

Again, I think if varies a LOT by where you live. There are 3 Brown legacies (seniors in ihigh school) on my SINGLE block in DC and at least a dozen at my kid's NW DC private (when both parents of each kid are taken into account).

Brown certainly doesn't want 10 or 15 or 20% of their entire incoming class coming from the DMV which might be the case if all academically qualified legacies were admitted an an equal rate. I'm sure if you're an academically qualified Brown legacy in rural PA your odds might be quite good.

That and the fact that Brown doesn't take even take legacies at a high rate. But certainly not at a high rate from areas of the country where there is such a high concentration of legacies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Double legacy family, active alumni participation, consistent (but not big $) giving, child with stats that match Brown's admitted students' stats from well regarded private - waitlisted (soft rejection in my opinion). Same for many classmates. Legacy is not a meaningful boost at Brown.

Again, I think if varies a LOT by where you live. There are 3 Brown legacies (seniors in ihigh school) on my SINGLE block in DC and at least a dozen at my kid's NW DC private (when both parents of each kid are taken into account).

Brown certainly doesn't want 10 or 15 or 20% of their entire incoming class coming from the DMV which might be the case if all academically qualified legacies were admitted an an equal rate. I'm sure if you're an academically qualified Brown legacy in rural PA your odds might be quite good.

That and the fact that Brown doesn't take even take legacies at a high rate. But certainly not at a high rate from areas of the country where there is such a high concentration of legacies.

Also, Brown doesn't want all the DC kids they take to be legacy. Mine (and most she met from this are) are not.

[Anonymous]

As of March 2024, Brown University has not yet eliminated legacy admissions, but is still considering the issue:

Committee formed
In September 2023, Brown formed a committee to review its legacy admissions policy, along with early decision and test-optional admissions. The committee is made up of senior faculty and alumni members of the university's governing body.

President's comments
President Christina Paxson has said that if the university is concerned with socioeconomic diversity, it would make sense to eliminate legacy admissions.

Student involvement
Nick Lee, co-president of the Students For Educational Equity club at Brown, has worked to pass anti-legacy admissions referenda and has drafted a bill to ban legacy preferences.

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One third of kids at Harvard are not legacy

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^I’d like to see some data on that. At least at my alma mater, I think the decision to do away with legacy consideration in admissions will further gut the middle class at the school. I do not agree with that path, and am reducing my donations accordingly. Pretty soon, I predict my school will be just like Princeton, a bunch of rich people and poor people studying together.

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Anonymous wrote:One third of kids at Harvard are not legacy

Doesn't that rate mean that 34% of legacies are admitted vice the general admit rate (5% or whatever)?

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Disgusting that people think they are entitled to hoard their privilege.

[Anonymous]

Brown admits one kid per year at most from my kids well-regarded DMV private and it’s a sports recruit vs legacy for what that’s worth. Multiple kids get into the other ivies, but not Brown—I don’t know why.