Legacies - NOT an automatic admission!

dadx
Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:26:57 +0000

L: It’s important to understand that being a legacy does not guarantee admission to Yale College. But the pool of legacy applicants is substantially stronger than the average of the rest of the pool. The grades and test scores of the legacies we admit are higher than the average of the rest of the admitted class, and the legacies that matriculate achieve higher grades at Yale than non-legacy students with the same high school grades and test scores.



Thanks. One wonders why no one else reads this the same way that I do. He’s telling you there is no legacy preference in any way that it is commonly understood. At Yale.