<p>I realize the legacy acceptance rate is twice that of a non-legacy applicant but how much does it really help? Would a legacy applicant with SAT scores that are not mindblowing (they are approx. 2230) and an unweighted GPA of 3.77 (all honors and 10 AP's) be competitive?</p>
<p>Any thoughts would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Maybe. But a family friend's daughter with like stats from competitive private school was denied outright in Dartmouth ED last year. her mother was an active alum and did interviews for admissions for a number of years. really surprised Dartmouth didnt at least defer and play it out to RD due to alum relationship.</p>
<p>Wow, that is unusual. I have never heard of Dartmouth outright rejecting an ED legacy candidate with stats in this range.</p>