Why Does Yale Have a Repuation of Being Heavily Legacied

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>from a yale alumni magazine article a few years ago, Yale’s admission rate for legacies approached 30% while it was around 40% at Harvard and Princeton (I can’t find the link right now, but I’ll look later).</p>

<p>legacies make up about 14% of the entering freshman class - though it appears this definition of legacy is very loose and includes being the child or grandchild of an alum from ANY Yale school.
<a href=“http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2004_11/q_a.html[/url]”>http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2004_11/q_a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;