Legacies at Yale??

kwijiborjt
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:25:21 +0000

Students with legacy aren’t treated any differently (except by the admissions office :P). They comprise 10%+ of the undergraduate body… that’s a lot of people to alienate if you feel like being snobby toward legacies. That’s not an official statistic, but it’s about how many people in my college-year have legacy that i’m aware of (although that # might be inflated, because i’m in a college that legacies would definitely elect to be in if they had the choice). The only reason someone might treat you differently would be if you were obnoxious about people in your family having gone to yale. Nobody acts as if you’re somehow less deserving because you have legacy (whether or not they think it), although i know some people who are self conscious about their legacy status for that reason.