"As the use of affirmative action as a factor in undergraduate admissions comes under fire, Yale students appear split on several other admissions criteria in a January survey administered by the News. Students were mixed on using a ‘recruited athlete’ status as a ‘plus factor,’ but the majority of students did not support using the metric of being the child of an alumnus or donor — either current or prospective — as ‘plus factors.’
Months after the Department of Justice opened an investigation into Yale’s use of race in admissions and potential discrimination against Asian Americans, the News polled students on their opinions of various other ‘plus factors’ used by the admissions process in their deliberations. The survey, which had more than 1,400 respondents, polled students on three specific factors that admissions uses in deliberations — legacy status, recruited athlete status and whether or not someone is the child of a past or prospective donor." …
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/02/12/students-split-on-admissions-plus-factors/