<p>How did legacies fare with SCEA this year?</p>
<p>I was accepted!</p>
<p>My son is double legacy, and he was also accepted.</p>
<p>My d is a legacy and was accepted. She will be applying to some Yale peer schools where she isn't a legacy, so eventually we will have even more data on how meaningful or meaningless being a non-wealthy legacy is. My s applied in the recent past; at the time he was a legacy and the child of a tenured faculty member and he was denied. His numbers/stats/ECs/recommendations were not as stellar as his sister's, but he was no slouch. My guess is that my d and s pretty much fared the same as they would have without the legacy connection. Your mileage may vary.</p>
<p>I'd be curious to know how legacies of Harvard and Princeton fared in Yale's SCEA.</p>
<p>I'm a legacy and I was deferred... but I'll admit my stats weren't as amazing as many of the people who were accepted. Conversely, they weren't as great as many people who were rejected...</p>
<p>:( March 31st, maybe?</p>
<p>Poster JHS, I believe, has noted that HYP legacies tend to do well at the HYP schools at which they are NOT legacies with legacy rates being only slightly higher. This makes sense to me.</p>
<p>I'm curious, though, if HP legacies will do as well early at Yale in a year where H and P have no early admissions. Will Yale want to lure them, or will it defer them in order to protect yield?</p>
<p>I have many many many legacies at Harvard and many many many legacies at Yale. I emailed the admissions officer assigned to read applications from my school explaining that Yale was my absolute top choice and that I will not apply to any other schools if accepted, and it seemed to work; I was accepted early to Yale!</p>
<p>Poster JHS, with 0 confirming data, has often repeated a comment to that effect about Harvard by a Harvard admissions official, that Harvard's acceptance rate for Yale and Princeton legacies is only slightly lower than its acceptance rate for Harvard legacies. He didn't mean, of course, that they favor Yale and Princeton legacies; he meant that they really don't care much about Harvard legacies, except that lots of them would get in anyway because they tend to be strong applicants.</p>
<p>I would be quite surprised if the statement were as true for Princeton as for Harvard.</p>
<p>-JHS (whose very high achieving kid went 0-4 at legacy schools)</p>
<p>Some close friends of mine had two double legacy kids applying SCEA at Yale in the last three years, both with very strong credentials (but perhaps without that extra tipping point), both deferred. My (weak, anecdotal) sense is that legacy is more likely to move a candidate from the "rejected" to "deferred" column at EA decision time than to move a candidate into the "accepted" column either then or ultimately.</p>
<p>Yale is known to use deferral for borderline legacies in the RD round as a much softer way of rejecting the applicants.</p>
<p>On the other hand, most of the legacy kids I know who were accepted at Yale were deferred EA. I know two who were accepted EA, four or five who were accepted RD (only one of whom didn't apply EA), and at least a dozen who were deferred EA then rejected or waitlisted (same thing).</p>
<p>I'm a legacy, and I was deferred SCEA. I guess I could be one of those borderline candidates being "soft-rejected." (1500/2260, top 1% in class, decent EC's but nothing incredible)</p>
<p>Well, accepted, I was (graduate school only, both parents) legacy (nondonating), but my GC is a Yale alum and what she says is that Yale in SCEA is just going to hand pick the absolute best of the best - many of which are legacies. Legacy isnt a factor, it's just getting the absolute top kids in terms of academics, sports, and minorities. Then all legacies that didnt make the cut are pretty much deferred, assuming solid stats. In RD they will favor the fact that you are a legacy more than in EA because in EA, they are trying to find the people who they really want for themselves and dont want HPS to get. But legacies with deferral stats stand a real good shot in RD - by real good, I mean a solid 25% of legacies will be getting in (it was 30% but Yale is cutting down, I believe). So deferred legacies, which are most legacy applicants, need not throw away their Yale attire and booklets.</p>
<p>Since someone brought it up...multi-legacy at Princeton, deferred at Yale.</p>
<p>^ Same for me (deferred P-ton multi-legacy). Sigh.</p>
<p>Perhaps since most applications ask where your parents went to school, and both Harvard and Princeton have done away with early admissions, Yale chose to defer the those "other" legacies (especially double legacies) knowing full well that they would have applied early to either H or P instead of Yale if their programs still existed. My take on this would be that if Yale is really your first choice you need to let them know that IF admitted you WILL matriculate.</p>
<p>Just my $0.02</p>
<p>I don't think being a Harvard legacy would help in Yale admissions........</p>
<p>The point of being an HYP legacy is that presumably you've got both nature and nurture on your side, this is good genes and parents who place a premium on education.</p>