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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, the legacies I know who were rejected were more than qualified. One example: friends who are double legacy at Harvard, all three kids are at Yale instead because they didn't get into Harvard. All the legacies I know rejected from their parents school ended up at an equally elite school - so yes, those kids were qualified for the legacy school. I just don't think it's as easy as  as "oh, she got in because of legacy, or she didn't get in because they didn't donate."

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The Chetty et al paper looks at this question and finds that—despite having a 4-fold advantage over non-legacy applicants at the legacy institution—the legacy applicants have only slightly higher admissions rates at other institutions, implying that most of the difference at the legacy institution is due to legacy.[/quote]

That’s an interesting conclusion. Are they comparing all legacy applicants who applied at the legacy institution or just those who were accepted and then applied elsewhere? If the former how did they control for the fact that many of the legacies who were accepted early did not apply elsewhere so the pool of legacies applying to other schools didn’t have a four fold advantage - the reality would be much lower [/quote]

It’s the latter—they exclude those who applied early as the decision to apply elsewhere after that is endogenous to the first admissions decision. This is supported by a model-based result that uses regressions to assess all of the observable characteristics in the application file. Both approaches spit out a similar result.[/quote]

So they only considered legacies who applied to their legacy institution regular decision? And the 4X advantage presented itself in the regular cycle? I assumed that legacies got the hook only in early rounds [/quote]

Yes, most everything I've read has said the hook is most beneficial in the early round. [/quote]

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