@Ebbie1 “Why do people have to have a higher advantage than others just because their ‘forefathers’ got accepted to Penn. Being honest, some of those students don’t have stats comparable to other students and despite this get accepted which is honestly disgusting.”
I don’t think this is true anymore. I can’t remember the sources, but I’ve read a few times in the past year or so that legacy admits have same stats as general admit population, but athletic recruits do have lower stats. This is also what I see in my dds’ big public school. Every year our public school sends several athletes (mostly for crew) to the ivies who are solid students but not top 5% or even 10% and with SAT/ACT scores in the bottom quartile of their respective ivies.
The legacy admits are always top of their hs class. I think legacy kids are given a leg up when they are competing against other candidates with roughly same stats and accomplishments. This is not an insignificant advantage considering the ivies-plus schools reject hundreds if not thousands of extremely accomplished candidates every year.
On a side note, I was a little shocked to read about how quickly some 1st-gen/low-income students at Penn become interested in passing on their legacy status to their own yet unborn children.