Many of these only consider legacy if you apply. ED. Penn, for example. No leg up for RD.

While many in the first list may consider, it doesn’t mean that it’s really a thumb on the scale. Am aware of many qualified students who were legacy at a number of these schools but were rejected in ED/EA or deferred them rejected in RD.

Legacy may help but folks shouldn’t bank on it, even if a school claims to consider.

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Anonymous wrote:Welp...figures my DH went to Hopkins. But DD isn't interested in it anyway. She wants to go to the same school her brother and grandfather went to, so hoping that helps.

Same. And finding out you are a maligned race, heterosexual student on their hit list isn’t making it attractive if you are in that group.

What maligned race?

US Naval Acad? Of course they consider legacy. Don't care what they say -- are you dense?

Anonymous wrote:Welp...figures my DH went to Hopkins. But DD isn't interested in it anyway. She wants to go to the same school her brother and grandfather went to, so hoping that helps.

Same. And finding out you are a maligned race, heterosexual student on their hit list isn’t making it attractive if you are in that group.

Georgetown is so heavily legacy, they could fill the entire class with them. The only admits EA were legacy from our school.

Anonymous wrote:Wesleyan does not consider legacy. There are others missing.

which is literally what OP said

I would have thought naval academy would consider legacy. Generations of service and all.

Welp...figures my DH went to Hopkins. But DD isn't interested in it anyway. She wants to go to the same school her brother and grandfather went to, so hoping that helps.

Anonymous wrote:Wesleyan does not consider legacy. There are others missing.

True. Carleton also does not consider legacy.

Wesleyan does not consider legacy. There are others missing.

Washington University in St. Louis 100% considers legacy. See page 13 in the link below ("alumni/ae relation" listed as a "considered" factor)

https://wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/wustl-cds-2022-2023.pdf

Anonymous wrote:What order is it in?

Lowest admit rate to highest, legacy schools in first list, non-legacy in second list.

What order is it in?

Came across an article in the Chronicle, "Which Colleges Consider Legacies in Their Admissions? Not Just the Ones You're Thinking" published 12/12/23 with data from the US Department of Education. I was curious who was on the list and who was not. It may not be the most up to date as I think some schools have announced changes recently, such as Wesleyan. For the non-legacy schools I looked at those listed in USNWR. These are schools with acceptance rates under 30% minus a few specialty schools. Order is most selective schools on top.

Schools that consider legacy (admit rate less than 30%):
Harvard University
Columbia University
Stanford University
Brown University
University of Chicago
Yale University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Princeton University
Cornell University
Northwestern University
Swarthmore College
University of Pennsylvania
Vanderbilt University
Colby College
Williams College
Barnard College
Bowdoin College
Rice University
Claremont McKenna College
Tufts University
Emory University
Grinnell College
Tulane University
Colgate University
Georgetown University
Hamilton College (N.Y.)
University of Southern California
Harvey Mudd College
Middlebury College
University of Notre Dame
Bates College
Boston University
Haverford College
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University (Conn.)
Colorado College
Boston College
Carleton College
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Washington and Lee University
Pitzer College
University of Miami
University of Virginia
Vassar College
Wake Forest University
Babson College
Denison University
Smith College
Villanova University
University of Richmond
Skidmore College
University of Tampa
Case Western Reserve University
Spelman College

Schools that do not consider legacy (admit rate less than 30%):
CalTech
MIT
Amherst College
Johns Hopking
Northeastern
Pomona College
UCLA
Carnegie Mellon
Berkeley
U.S. Naval Academy
Washington University in St. Louis
New York University
West Point
Air Force Academy
Davidson College
Georgia Tech
University of Michigan
Hillsdale College
UC Irvine
University of Florida
UC San Diego
Berea College
Florida State
UC Santa Barbara
Macalester
Scripps