<p>Hi guys,
Does anyone know the legacy (parents, siblings, grandparents) admit rate from last year (specifically from the early pool)? I heard that legacy admission barely helps an applicant to Yale, but I just wanted to know if anyone has the numbers?</p>
<p>No RD/SCEA breakdown, but 13.3% of freshmen have parents who are alumni of Yale College or one of Yale’s graduate or professional schools :
<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/oir/open/pdf_public/W030_Fresh_YCParents.pdf[/url]”>http://www.yale.edu/oir/open/pdf_public/W030_Fresh_YCParents.pdf</a></p>
<p>thanks! I am actually more interested in the percentage accepted of legacy applicants - I don’t think it is available information, though - but that is a little helpful, I guess.</p>
<p>Wow so grad school really doesn’t seem to make a difference, huh?</p>
<p>I don’t have a reference or link to back this up but I remember seeing some numbers that suggested that last year the overall acceptance rate for Yale College legacy applicants was around 25-30%, while the acceptance rate for Yale Grad/Professional school legacy applicants was around 8-10%. Please don’t consider this to be authoritative, I think there were some assumptions about yield that were made in order to arrive at those figures. The global acceptance rate for all applicants was 7.5%.</p>
<p>Last year 842 applications from the sons and daughters of alumni of Yale College and of the Yale Graduate and Professional Schools were submitted. 167 of these matriculated. That’s 20% right there. </p>
<p>(I don’t know how many were offered admission but declined). </p>
<p>But these are raw numbers and aren’t adjusted for other mitigating factors (i.e. legacy children in general, come from stronger HS backgrounds so tend to submit stronger applications than the general pool)</p>
<p>thanks for the information guys!</p>