<p>[The</a> Back Door to the Yard | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/6/6/the-back-door-to-the-yard/]The”>The Back Door to the Yard | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>old article from 2001. talks about z-list, forced deferrment for 1 year</p>
<p>The Crimson obtained information about the legacy status of 36 of the approximately 80 Z-list students at Harvard in 2001-02. Though McGrath Lewis insists the Z-list is “not a legacy list,” 26—or 72 percent of the 36-student sample—were legacies, compared with 12 to 14 percent of the class as a whole.</p>
<p>Even if none of the remaining 44 or so Z-list students were legacies, 33 percent of the 80 students would be legacies—still well above the proportion of legacies in the class as a whole.</p>