Legacies - NOT an automatic admission!

mathmom
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:35:55 +0000

Based on a sample size of three I think there is a slight legacy preference at Harvard, but that the legacies accepted are more than qualified. Not sure how many kids applied from my son’s class, but two were accepted and one was weightlisted. Valedictorian (legacy at Yale) was accepted. Number four in the class was waitlisted, but accepted at Princeton. Number eight, our son was accepted. His test scores, included an 800 in CR and 800s on all his SAT2s. His ECs included state level medals at Science Olympiad every year and work and research experience involving computer programming.