How much does legacy matter for HYP admission?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:White privilege.

Puleeze. You want to know when applicants really rock their way into HYP? When they are legacy AND URM. Assuming that they are good (but not necessarily great) students, they can practically phone the application in.

YES! And Stanford has figured it out that if they take in URM children from URM legacies, then they get to check off two columns.

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03/16/2018 11:16

Subject: Re:How much does legacy matter for HYP admission?

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Anonymous

It helps a ton. Harvard's incoming class is one-third legacy. That's a huge boost.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/06/harvards-incoming-class-is-one-third-legacy.html

Top schools now have record low admission rates, but only some students have to worry about what that means for their chances. Legacy admissions, at elite institutions especially, put a select few at a distinct advantage.

Harvard's incoming class of 2021 is made up of over 29 percent legacy students, reports The Harvard Crimson. Last year's applicants who had Harvard in their blood were three times more likely to get into the school than those without.

The case is the same at Stanford. In fact, across the top 30 schools in the U.S., one review from 2011 discussed in the Washington Post found that children of alumni "had a 45 percent greater chance of admission" than other applicants.

Legacy students tend to be wealthy and white, students who, as a group, are already disproportionately represented at college. The New York Times found that, at five Ivy League schools, Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Penn and Brown, as well as 33 other colleges, there are more students from families in the top one percent than from the entire bottom 60 percent.