Are legacy applicants in a separate pool?

<p>Your example is completely unrelated to the point you are trying to make about wealth and class, and as a personal anecdote it is hardly convincing evidence of your larger point regarding Princeton boosters. You are correct that Princeton has a long history of being an incubator for the ruling class. Even today, as Princeton welcomes students of all backgrounds, a select group of the very wealthy continue to buy their children admission to Princeton. But this phenomenon is certainly not unique to Princeton. Ivy Club, widely considered the most elitist club at Princeton, is much more accessible than either the Porcellian Club or Skull & Bones, its counterparts at Harvard and Yale respectively. Princeton has just as much a right to boast of socioeconomic diversity as its peers. We are more vocal because we wish to dispel the lingering stereotypes that kenf1234 and others cling to.</p>