<p>I only mentioned legacies in Group 3. I am not sure why people have suggested that I am saying legacies are either disadvantaged getting in SCEA or are advantaged in getting into group 1. </p>
<p>Legacies are mostly likely to be grouped into Group 3 if not accepted SCEA and then group 2 as legacy acts as a tipping factor in the RD round. Legacies and geography are the first people to get a look when filling in the gaps AFTER finishing out the majority of the class. Unless they think they can wrangle a fat check out of a SCEA deferred applicant’s parents with the false threat of rejection/waitlist, there would be no reason for a legacy to be in group 1 - a happy donor is a generous donor. Regarding legacies, I don’t have any statistics, but would guess they matriculate at a higher rate than the overall class, a positive for yale that would be further enforced if accepted SCEA.</p>