<p>“For them to get more dollars out of OOS legacies, they’d have to filter for full pay vs FA. Dean J said,” Ability to pay is not a factor in our review." I takes a lot to make an assumption OOS legacy families are automatically more likely to not need FA."</p>
<p>It is hugely and obviously going to be the case that UVA grads of a certain age (as a group) are going to be more well-to-do than a random sample of applicants. That’s why legacy preferences at schools like UVA and the Ivies are typically criticized as “affirmative action for the rich.” </p>
<p>[Affirmative</a> Action for the Rich | Brookings Institution](<a href=“http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/2010/affirmativeactionfortherich]Affirmative”>http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/2010/affirmativeactionfortherich)</p>
<p>Dean J doesn’t need to consider ability to pay in reading applications. Once the file is tagged as a legacy, the upscale SES demographics (not for each file but on average for the group over thousands of applications year after year) are going to be there. You’d get significant upscale demographics just by culling out applicants whose parents graduated from any college; even more upscale if the parent college is UVA.</p>