<p>what are the odds of a legacy being admitted?</p>
<p>about 2100</p>
<p>It really depends more on the rest of your stats.</p>
<p>I've seen/heard admissions officers say legacy (and other hooks like minority status etc...) "can heal the sick, but can't raise the dead." It's far from an automatic acceptance.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I am a legacy and (assuming you are a legacy from your post) after you apply Yale will send your parent a note that says thank you for entrusting us with your child's application and possible future enrollment and we will give him or her a thorough look on the application [not saying that you will get more of a look than other applicants, but trying to please the alumni]. Then there is an FAQ page where one of the questions is about admit rate for legacies, and if i remember right the legacy admit rate is about 30%. But the answer also says that the higher admit rate does not have as much to do with the fact that you are a legacy, but with the fact that in general legacy students tend to have better records (It is a correlation not a causation. Being a legacy and getting into Yale are related, but the higher admit rate is not just because you are a legacy).</p>
<p>i'm sure it helped, but like doodle said it cannot make your application</p>
<p>What if you are a legacy, but your parent is deceased? I know they think (hope) that if you are a legacy your parents will donate. Do they give the legacy less weight if the parent who attended has passed away? (morbid question ... I know).</p>
<p>i lurve legacy status!</p>
<p>legacy, 2100, NHS gpa:94, varsity rower (captain), 150 + hrs of community service, job experience...6 ap's</p>