<p>From what I can tell, applying early if a college has an early admissions program of any kind is considered a real expression of interest. Campus visits are generally not, since many schools make no effort to track them, not just Yale.</p>
<p>I am a little skeptical about those “legions of Yale legacies who have been denied admission”. For one thing, schools that get over 25,000 applications obviously get a large “n” of just about every category of applicant and so even Yale can still bias admissions in favor of legacies without lowering its academic standards. </p>
<p>And when looking at acceptance stats of CC applicants to colleges it is clear to me that not all students (or their parents) reveal URM, recruited athlete or legacy status. At one point I recognized my niece posting on CC. She posted her accepted stats for a school in the HYPSM group, but did not admit in that post or elsewhere that she was a double parent legacy at that school. </p>
<p>I assume that a certain percentage of CCers are legacies but, like my niece, do not reveal that information. The disappointed legacies and their parents may be more likely to post about their disappointment.</p>