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[quote=Anonymous]I did some quick fact checking on the composition of recent entering classes at Harvard and Yale.  To generalize my findings: URM students in the aggregate make up about 25% of any class (Latinos + African Americans + Pacific Islanders + Native Americans), recruited athletes are about 10-15%, and legacies between 7 and 12%.  There is some overlap between these groups, of course, especially between AA and athletes.  So, as a unique set, these categories make up about 40% +/- of any class, leaving 60% for at-large candidates who matriculate.   The yield rate for these schools from accepted recruited athletes and legacies is higher than for the at-large accepted population.  So, it would be reasonable to gross up the 60% matriculating number for at-larges to something closer to 2/3 of the total acceptances.

This notion that only hooked candidates get in is a local fiction.  Generalizing across the entire pool of applicants, it is clear that there is an opportunity for unhooked kids.  Trying to draw conclusions from one class of graduates from one tiny private school tells you absolutely nothing.  Nothing.  Place the blame squarely where it belongs, on a ridiculously competitive and idiosyncratic admissions process.[/quote]

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