Does being a legacy help?

[Hunt]

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So, I think, while those legacies who are accepted may be about as qualified as the accepted kids in the non-legacy pool, those that are rejected may be, as a group, less qualified than the regular pool.

To rephrase my own speculation, it may be that the bell curve of legacy applicants has a longer “tail” than the bell curve of non-legacy applicants, which could result in a higher admission rate for legacies even if those admitted are not appreciably more or less qualified than other admittees.</p>