<p>athena_wiles, here’s the easiest way to look at it:</p>
<p>Well, probably not, but it works:</p>
<p>l<em>in is the number of admitted legacies, l</em>app is the number who applied. o<em>in is the number of non-legacies who got in, o</em>app is the number who applied. we’ll assume everyone who got in goes, because I’m too tired to do the extra calculations :p</p>
<p>It would be way too confusing and convoluted on a forum like this so I uploaded a PDF (yay LaTeX!):</p>
<p><a href=“http://research.amnh.org/astrophysics/staff/adams/YaleCalc.pdf[/url]”>http://research.amnh.org/astrophysics/staff/adams/YaleCalc.pdf</a></p>
<p>Um, someone tell me if the math’s wrong, it was done pretty hastily. The solution is imperfect, yeah, but…well, if I knew how many accepted students chose Yale per year, then it might be a bit easier to do.</p>