Take Aways From This Year's Admissions

bluebayou
Sat, 20 May 2017 17:00:38 +0000

My husband and I are alums and don’t think that helps at all as we have so many friends who kids are double legacies with strong applications and didn’t get accepted.

It’s probably a local/regional issue. Stanford has the same problem with legacies in California. Both schools, of course, are seeking a broad “national” reach, so that means they have to be choosy when taking kids from their back yards. Similarly, Harvard can’t accept all the top kids in Boston or Yale, Connecticut.