Legacy admissions have gone up slightly this year.
Quote from April 11, 2008 ABC News story: "At 40 percent, Princeton's legacy acceptance rate is more than four times higher than the rate of its general applicant pool."
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ABC News: Legacy #'s Strong, Admissions Down: Fair?)
I'm having a hard time finding an exact rate from last year, but last year (for the class of 2011), the Daily Princetonian reported that "Rapelye declined to provide statistics on admitted legacy students but said they were similar to last year's. 'We have admitted legacies at a rate three times as great [as the overall rate], and this has been consistently true for 25 years.'" Since last year the admissions rate was approximately 10%, I would guess that last year the rate was about 30%, and maybe as high as 35%.
MomofnewP: You are right too. Here is the article that says about 15% of the matriculating (not admitted) class is composed of legacies (
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