Legacies - NOT an automatic admission!

cosar
Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:09:37 +0000

danas:

Oh, and the yield rate for legacies at Brown is significantly higher – ranges from 70-78%. I’ll bet other top colleges are similar in this regard. Circumstantial evidence that their legacy schools were the top schools to admit many of them.



Or it reflects the fact that legacies are more likely to apply through the early decision program, where the yield is 100%. A number of schools make clear, either explicitly or implicitly, that they won’t give legacies any additional boost unless they apply early and commit to attend if accepted.