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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]True for many schools, but Yale has need blind admissions. Regardless of whether you are on FA, legacy is a huge boost. 
http://www.princeton.edu/~tje/files/Admission%20Preferences%20Espenshade%20Chung%20Walling%20Dec%202004%20full.pdf[/quote]
Interesting to see in that study that legacy applicants average higher SAT scores than non-legacy applicants -- legacies score 18 points higher on average.  
[quote=page 1430] ... athletes in the applicant pools have lower average SAT scores than nonathletes (1298 vs. 1335), whereas there is a smaller gap between legacies (1350) and nonlegacies (1332)[/quote][/quote]
PP again, to correct myself.  Those averages are not for the applicants, but rather for the admitted students from the study.  So legacies who were admitted averaged 18 points higher on the SAT than those non-legacies who were admitted.  [/quote]

"The
bonus for African-American applicants is roughly equivalent to an extra 230
SAT points (on a 1600-point scale), to 185 points for Hispanics, 200 points
for athletes, and [b]160 points for children of alumni.[/b] The Asian disadvantage
is comparable to a loss of 50 SAT points."[/quote]

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