<p>I heard a rumor that legacies are less likely to be accepted if they apply RD as opposed to SCEA...I have no idea if that is true. Does anyone have any experience with that?</p>
<p>I’m not aware of any published material that would indicate that’s true.</p>
<p>However, put yourself in an Admissions Director’s chair. When a strong applicant, who is also a legacy, applies RD, you might wonder: Why didn’t the legacy apply SCEA? Did she apply somewhere else early? How strong is the legacy’s interest? </p>
<p>If that same legacy applies SCEA, none of these questions come in to play. Yale knows you are their first choice. </p>
<p>So, logically, the rumor would seem to make sense. </p>
<p>That said, see: [Debating</a> Legacy Admissions at Yale, and Elsewhere - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/legacy-2/]Debating”>Debating Legacy Admissions at Yale, and Elsewhere - The New York Times)</p>
<p>"At Yale, legacies make up about 10 percent of the 2010-11 undergraduate class compared with 31.4 percent in 1939, he said.</p>
<p>“We turn away 80 percent of our legacies, and we feel it every day,” Mr. Brenzel said, adding that he rejected more offspring of the school’s Sterling donors than he accepted this year (Sterling donors are among the most generous contributors to Yale). He argued that legacies scored 20 points higher on the SAT than the rest of the class as a whole.</p>
<p>Anecdotal evidence isn’t worth much, but I applied legacy RD and got in.</p>
<p>However, I’m going to agree with gibby on the patent logic of the point; you might as well apply EA unless there’s somewhere else you REALLY REALLY want to go.</p>
<p>Squid, how are you class of 2017? Gap year?</p>
<p>^ Yes 10char</p>