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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Somehow I knew you were going to wind up here (lots of us have read that study). Tell us, what does that study, which deals with regular admits,  have to do with SCEA or ED?[/quote]

You knew this because all of these discussions end up in the same place.  The innocents on this forum who thought that [b]racial profiling of the SFS admits to Yale [/b]would end up in a different place are completely naïve.  It is always about race or some other hidden advantage and never about the relative merits of the candidates.  If you want a strategy that will help your kids get into places like Yale then you should encourage them to get exceptional grades, become leaders in their activities, prepare well for standardized tests, be good people, and represent themselves fairly and authentically in the application process.  This formula is no guarantee of success at any one college, of course.  But it is certainly true of ALL of the admits being discussed here.  Not speculation, I know each of them well.[/quote]

Gee, I never thought about it that way, but it is in fact racial profiling.  We know nothing about them and yet we are more than willing to generalize and project certain attributes onto the individual.  [/quote]

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