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[quote=Anonymous]Further from the Chronicle of Higher Education.  I overstated the legacy factor in my previous analysis.  It is more like 120 students rather than the 200 I suggested.  Order of magnitude the overall math is the same.

[b]The Decline of Legacy Admissions at Yale
 
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Yesterday morning, I participated in a panel discussion at New York University on admission preferences for legacy candidates with Jeffrey Brenzel, dean of admissions at Yale, and Dan Golden of Bloomberg News. Ann Marcus from the Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy at NYU moderated. (Jenny Anderson has a write up in The New York Times‘ “Choice” blog here).

Brenzel, to his credit, gave only a qualified defense of legacy preferences and provided some interesting data about the substantial decline in legacy admissions at Yale over time. In 1939, he said, legacies (defined as children of Yale college graduates) made up 31.4 percent the enrolled class at Yale. Today, [u]they make up 8.7 percent[/u]. (Including the children of Yale alumni of professional and graduate schools adds a few percentage points to these totals.)
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