<p>Ah, well. You know, depending on the composition of the pool–which I don’t know(!!!), it could well be that some school has a 9% admit rate for non-legacy applicants.</p>
<p>Say a school has 1,000 applicants. </p>
<p>100 legacy applicants, @40% —> 40 admitted students</p>
<p>900 non-legacy applicants, @ 9% —> 81 admitted students</p>
<p>121/1,000 = 12.1% admit rate, of which 1/3 are legacies</p>
<p>I made the math easy, but you can see, can’t you, that Brandenburg 5’s 9%/40%, is possible? As long as the legacy proportion of the overall pool’s comparatively small, there could be drastically different rates of admission for different segments of the pool.</p>