Legacy statistics

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Virginia
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<p>Being a legacy in-state does not seem to do anything for you in admissions. On this, UVA legacy admissions differ from how private schools (which do not have IS/OOS admission pools) do it. Hence my theory that at UVA, the legacy practice synchs up with enrolling more full payors at the higher OOS price point.</p>

<p>“we plan to maintain our current model, in which out-of-state legacy applicants are treated as if they are Virginians. The offer rate for Virginians to the University was 44 percent this year, the non-Virginian offer rate was 24 percent. There is a significant advantage to being a Virginian in our review. This fall 14 percent of the enrolling students are children of alumni.” </p>

<p><a href=“http://uvamagazine.org/articles/carrying_on_the_legacy/”>http://uvamagazine.org/articles/carrying_on_the_legacy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>FWIW, down the road at UNC-CH, they say they give a similar admissions boost (they call it “significant”) to OOS legacies like UVA does. For in-staters, they say legacy status is a much smaller boost (they call it “just a tie-breaker”). </p>