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Legacies  can provide a hook or boost, like other factors, that can help in the crapshoot of whether a well qualified applicant gets a nod over other well qualified students.  It very seldom means that what you call an "undeserving" kid gets in.  [b]At the iIvy schools the percentage of alumni children rejected for application exceeds those accepted by more than 2:1. [/b] And,  I this area, if you aren't in the top quarter of your "big 3" class, it doesn't matter if your mommy or daddy went to  Yale, you can put away the "Y" cap because you probably arent getting in.[/quote]

I agree with you, mostly, but I'm not sure what you meant by the bolded part. Legacy does increase your chances of admission well beyond an unhooked kid's chances. At Harvard, for example, the acceptance rate for legacy kids is 30% vs. 6-7% for the school as a whole. Here:  http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/5/11/admissions-fitzsimmons-legacy-legacies. BTW, note that a 6-7% school-wide acceptance, which includes higher acceptance rates for legacies, athletes and other hooked kids, means the acceptance rate for unhooked kids is more like 3-4%. Anyway, DD graduated from HS this year and I agree that all the kids who got into really selective schools, whether as legacies, athletes or unhooked, were super-qualified with high GPAs, SATs at 2200 or above, and leadership. Yes, even the recruited athletes I know of are amazing academically too.[/quote]

This is just bs.  Many legacies are not in the top 25%, just like athletes and urm.  Some are well qualified but many are seriously less qualified.  Big thumb on the scale.  [/quote]

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