<p>does anyone know the admission rates for people with legacy, for early or regular?</p>
<p>legacy early admission rate: 8%
legacy regular admission rate: 7%</p>
<p>wow that seems unbelievable that people with legacy would actually have it HARDER than everyone else.</p>
<p>yep, tough to deal with the truth aint it?</p>
<p>How could that be?? I thought legacies got admitted at a much higher rate.</p>
<p>no way man, are you crazy?...if anything they have it tougher?...why would yale want to keep donating alumns happy by admitting their kids?...it just doesnt make any sense</p>
<p>haha, does anyone have the actual stats?</p>
<p>i've heard 33% of all legacies who apply get in.</p>
<p>Wonder what the percentage is for children of donating alums.</p>
<p>33% beats 16% for sure. is it higher for early do you know?</p>
<p>what percent of admitted legacies would you say are huge donors, or does just being a legacy help that much for non-huge-donors</p>
<p>yeah i've heard in between 25% and 33%.</p>
<p>Legacy is between 25% and 30%.(the 30% comes from Yale site, the 25% from one of these, "We can get you in" sites) Yale has one of the lowest, if not the lowest legacy admit rates of the ivies----Harvard admits 40% (that's hugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! of its alumn applications) Years ago (when I had a friend in the admission office) legacy was compared to legacy and that's probably still true today. How else could they consistently have 14% of the class be legacy?
so
1/4 or 1/3ish chances
Generally you're being compared to a group (at least they say) with high end applications (scores, elite schools, opportunities) although I would think there are a couple of low gpa/scores but egotistic daddies (or mommies) who think the kid will get in anyway</p>
<p>It's one thing to be legacy. It's another to be donating legacy.</p>
<p>Simply being legacy may give you an edge in a tie with a similar applicant, but it's not likely to significantly increase your chances unless you're not just legacy, but also donating.</p>
<p>Yale divides donating legacy into an A list, B list, C list, and so on, depending on how much money your family donates to the University. If you are among these families, you will most likely get in one way or another, whether EA, RD, waitlist, or - if very underqualified - through transfer.</p>
<p>So, from my research (anyone with inside information or more outside research, please offer your input) I gather that it's less an issue of whether or not you are legacy, but, moreso, how much your family donates or has donated to the university.</p>
<p>Does being a child of a faculty member give you the same advantage as being a legacy?</p>
<p>Similar. I think it would count more than a normal legacy who donates a little, but less than a big donor. I'm not positive about this though.</p>
<p>What really helps is being a bajillion legacy like my friend. His ancestors have gone to the same ivy league schools for literally hundreds of years.</p>
<p>But if you get in that way, you gotta wonder if you could ever have gotten in on your own, and if you're up to it</p>
<p>oh man, my dad went to yale, but as a poor immigrant from china.....donated about $10. </p>
<p>sigh* so much for my chances as a poor legacy kid.</p>
<p>I think I want to be a bjillionaire. Is that wrong?</p>