<p>I'm a double-legacy and got deferred. I've heard that Yale defers a lot of legacies that apply early, so I was curious if this were the case for other legacies. So if you're a legacy, please just post the decision you got today.</p>
<p>CC is not representative of the normal applying population or the legacy popl, so not sure what answer you're looking for from this.</p>
<p>I don't have any statistics but I can tell you my child's experience. Deferred EA, very strong legacy and strong student as well. Was accepted RD. My gut feeling was that the admissions office didn't want to "waste" an offer on someone they felt might attend anyway given family history at Yale. EA is a way to get people interested in a school early on, even though it is non binding. Yale also knows that it has a very high yield so they know that many of the people they accept either round will decide to matriculate. So, if they see other candidates that may not have other ties to Yale during EA that they really want to encourage to attend, they may feel it is better to accept that student rather than perhaps being one of many offers that student may receive in April. Just a theory.</p>
<p>Accepted. Legacy from grad/professional school only. Stats posted on another forum. Good luck!</p>
<p>cornell75's explanation is possible. Some legacies, however, receive what are called courtesy deferrals. Due to the applicant's legacy status, admissions officers don't want to reject him/her in the EA round. The deferral is a signal that the parents either need to pay up or the kid will be rejected in April. But I would imagine that the vast majority of legacy deferrals mean the exact same thing as a deferral given to an ordinary applicant.</p>
<p>my classmate's dad went to yale undergrad and grad, and he got deferred</p>
<p>i get the vibe that people at CC tend to overrate the legacy status</p>
<p>I'm a double legacy (mother from the college, father from the school of forestry), and they are VERY active in the Yale community. I was deferred.</p>
<p>I'm probably a bit of an anomaly, but I had awful luck as a "legacy" applicant last year. I had legacy at Yale, MIT, and to a lesser extent Harvard, although I would not be considered a "development case" at any of these schools. I applied early to Yale, was deferred and later rejected. I was rejected at MIT and waitlisted and later rejected at Harvard. All of this was surprising as I ended up getting into every school I applied to (except a waitlist at Williams which may have been a case of "Tufts syndrome"). I ended up at Dartmouth. The Dartmouth admission was a bit surprising coming from NH, as I was a NH candidate who did not apply ED and who had no legacy or no prior connection to the school. I couldn't be happier anywhere else.</p>
<p>Here's my take on legacy admissions at places like Harvard and Yale a year out. These schools receive so much criticism for giving favoritism to legacies that they will be be weary to admit legacies unless the relation is already a key financial supporter. The result of this is that these colleges will be more likely to reject the other pool of legacies who oftentimes have stronger qualifications than the non-legacy admits (this helps keep the legacy admit rate down and keep public opinion up). So good luck to all the legacies who got deferred from Yale, the system is even more mysterious for you!</p>
<p>RollOver_Hanover, I think you too are overevaluating the legacy status..legacies don't get in because of that special status, but more often than not if the adcoms are oscillating between rejection and admission, then a legacy might push them towards admission..therefore, if you were shocked for your HY - MIT rejections due to your legacy status, you shouldnt be. Of course you were a very strong candidate, and clearly a stellar student, and got into Dartmouth - an amazing school, but just as before, you seem surprised that you got in even though you weren't legacy, which you shouldnt be..</p>
<p>im a legacy, grandpa, step grandpa, dad, and sister all went to yale. sister was their number one volleyball recruit though. i got deferred. another legacy from my school was also deferred. i realized its not about the money though. my friend is a huge legacy at penn but didnt have that great of grades but was donating so much money and they deferred him. other legacies at schools like stanford who donate a good amount of money were also deferred. im choosing to believe the theory that we are more inclined to stick around and be interested in the RD pool and therefore schools like Yale are using the EA to get those other super qualified kids from schools like Harvard and Princeton.</p>
<p>but since its EA, people dont have to accept till May 1st?</p>
<p>How much is "so much money"? If you are not qualified and want to buy admission to an Ivy, it can be quite expensive.</p>
<p>I'm also a multi-generation legacy who was deferred. The only kids I know accepted were very strongly "hooked," so I suspect that Yale very much focused the early round both that extremely </p>
<p>I'm with debate_addict here--that shouldn't have really surprised you, it's not like you were being recruited actively or something like that. Such is the way of elite college admissions...</p>
<p>Legacy kids from elite prep school did fine as usual.</p>
<p>Hmm. What's the strategy call, then, for a legacy at Yale? Apply EA somewhere else, and only RD at Yale? Or will failure to apply EA cast doubts in the RD round? You can drive yourself nuts trying to figure this out--probably it's best not to try too hard.</p>
<p>I highly doubt that they got in cuz of their legacy status...nor cuz of the fact that they attend an elite prep school.</p>
<p>At Princeton, public school kids tend to be more impressive academically than prep school kids. This suggests that attending such schools (and presumably being a legacy) gives students an edge. I imagine that things are not so different at Yale.</p>
<p>That's a very arbitrary generalization...i'd like to see something factual behind your statement..tho I doubt there is..</p>
<p>Hunt, the strategy should be apply EA if you are most interested in Yale (legacy or not) and if you don't want to apply early anywhere else. I don't think there is any other "strategy."</p>