<p>Legacy parent here - They admit around 20 - 25% but each class is less than 20% legacy because believe it or not, all legacies do not decide to matriculate. I believe 2018 is about 16% legacy.</p>
<p>^^Not only people who choose not to matriculate after acceptance. I think it also filters back to potential legacy applicants that there is no point in applying unless you’re otherwise a competitive applicant. I read an interview with the long-term Amherst director of admissions (a Williams alum) who said they admit 50 percent of legacies who apply to yield a 10 percent legacy class. He added they actively get it through the alumni grapevine to apply only if you meet the qualifications to avoid angry phone calls from parents, “I’ve donated every year, and this is what you do to my kid?”</p>
<p>No, 20-25% of the accepted students are legacies, but the actual class ends of being less, around 16%. That means that some are turning down their acceptance. Most legacies (that are not also developmental cases) know that if they are not competitive in the pool, they are not getting accepted, even with legacy status. The vast majority of legacies do not apply to Yale. Of my classmates, I have known very few whose children even applied to Yale. My D certainly knew that and worked her butt off just like the rest of the applicants. She took absolutely nothing for granted.</p>
<p>@falcon1 - there was story written by a CNN reporter that his sister searched his and her records and found out he got in because of his interviewer’s recommendation while she got in despite better stats than him because he was a student. So there seems to some level of legacy using anectoda;.</p>
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<p>I think we are looking at two separate numbers here. The admit rate is a separate number from the final composition of the class.</p>
<p>If 1000 legacy people apply, 200-250 are admitted.</p>
<p>If 200 people actually show up they will constitute almost 15% of the class.</p>
<p>I understand the difference. The point I was making is that no class at Yale is overrun with legacy kids. That’s all.</p>
<p>You are only a legacy if your parents attended Yale. You are not a legacy if the parents of your parents did.</p>
<p>Children of alumni donors probably get a bigger boost than just children of alumni. Did your grandfather donate?</p>
<p>I agree with the point above that alums of Yale and other highly selective schools are more likely than others to be well informed about admissions standards and may counsel their kids to not even apply if they’re not in the competitive range. Likewise many kids don’t want to get turned down by mom and/or dad’s alma mater and may tend to be cautious about applying.</p>
<p>It’s interesting that Yale and Princeton have almost exactly the same percentage of legacy children in the class of 2018, 12% and 11%.</p>
<p>admissions.yale.edu/node/2040/attachment</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/pub/profile/admission/undergraduate/”>http://www.princeton.edu/pub/profile/admission/undergraduate/</a></p>