Interview on Yale Admissions Process with Former AO Post Scandal

1NJParent
Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:25:00 +0000

If legacy preference weren’t a big deal, why keep it? If it were kept to please alums, wouldn’t they be more pissed if their kids were rejected at the same rate as unhooked non-legacy kids with otherwise similar profiles? Sure, legacy status (or anything else) alone won’t get a kid into a selective college, but that doesn’t refute the fact that the legacies enjoy a significant advantage over unhooked non-legacies.