<p>tetrisfan: Legacy is a boost. It definitely helps. But it does NOT turn Brown into a match or safety for ANYONE. </p>
<p>I’ll repeat and elaborate on what I said here before: Being a legacy and applying ED is NOT a guaranteed admission. I know double legacy applicants with excellent records who did not get in ED. I know legacies whose parents volunteered a lot for Brown and gave large donations every year who were rejected. Overall, 65% of legacy applicants do NOT get accepted into Brown. Anyone who thinks that a 35% acceptance rate is a sure thing is not accepting reality. </p>
<p>But yes, 35% is significantly higher than the 10 percent overall acceptance rate.</p>