What is a legacy?

gibby
Mon, 27 Aug 2012 19:17:04 +0000

[The Decline of Legacy Admissions at Yale - Innovations - The Chronicle of Higher Education](Innovations: The Decline of Legacy Admissions at Yale)

“Brenzel, to his credit, gave only a qualified defense of legacy preferences and provided some interesting data about the substantial decline in legacy admissions at Yale over time. In 1939, he said, legacies (defined as children of Yale college graduates) made up 31.4 percent the enrolled class at Yale. Today, they make up 8.7 percent. (Including the children of Yale alumni of professional and graduate schools adds a few percentage points to these totals.)”