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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What you linked to is not helpful.

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Seventy-four percent of respondents who reported having at least one parent who attended the College said that they were accepted early to Harvard. By comparison, 56 percent of all respondents said they were admitted early.[/quote]

All your facts tell me is that [b]if[/b] they are very likely to admit a legacy at some point, they do it in the early round rather than waiting to RD.  Why piss off your donor base?  There is also a decided "awareness advantage" of legacy applicants, which is to be understood given the fact that most of them have spent time on campus through the years at reunions etc. and some are even the sons/daughters of faculty and administrators.  No one has ever disputed the point that on a non-normalized basis, legacies get in more frequently especially in the early round.  Harvard fully admits this.  They also assert that the legacy pool of applicants is quite strong, which is partially evidenced by the Crimson's data.[/quote]

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