Legacies - NOT an automatic admission!

mathmom
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:54:58 +0000

“…the legacies that matriculate achieve higher grades at Yale than non-legacy students with the same high school grades and test scores.”

If this is true, it’s an objective reason to discriminate in favor of legacies.

BTW something similar happens with respect to women at MIT. They get better grades at MIT despite slightly lower stats. It doesn’t stop the grumbling from the high stat boys though. :)