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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, admitted legacies don’t have to put as much on the scale as admitted non-legacies because their legacy status is that extra thumb. Non-legacies have to be better to overcome the legacy preference. That’s what preference means.

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In our school it's the legacy VIP that get an extra thumb despite clearly lower credentials (yet - let's be clear - they will do just fine at the college).

The plain legacy who are accepted are typically among the strongest students - are they point for point as strong as their peers that get rejected - who knows? But within this high achiever group - that doesn't matter so much.  But it is clear that the legacy pushed them ahead of their similarly qualified peers.[/quote]

This is well said and it's the same at our school.  In any given year you may have one VIP legacy admitted (often with slightly lower credentials than the top students), one very top student legacy, and then 5-10 legacies who are rejected.  At these schools plain old legacy does not guarantee much because there are so many of them, when taking into account the fact that most kids have two parents. The odds that one parent went to an Ivy or Ivy+ are so high at these schools. [/quote]

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