Yale President On Legacies

tokenadult
Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:22:30 +0000

I didn’t apply to the selective LAC where I was a legacy, because it didn’t offer a major program (or any course at all, initially) in the field of study I desired to pursue. Legacies self-select to apply to where they would like to study. A school like Yale with strong programs in many different fields of study probably gets more legacy applications, by percentage of all college-age legacies, than the LAC my dad went to, but every college admits a majority of nonlegacy applicants, nicht wahr? The moral of this story seems to be to be sure to PREPARE well to be ready to join the Yale entering class, without worrying about where your parents went to school.