<p>does it help your chances?</p>
<p>the general answer is yes, being a legacy anywhere probably helps your chances.</p>
<p>will it count for everything? def. not, but it can push you from a "maybe" to a "yes" or help sway an admissions officer, etc. but it also depends on who's reading your file, and it depends on how good your grades are.</p>
<p>however: i know a kid who was a double legacy at dartmouth & got rejected, and I know a kid who was a double legacy at tufts and was accepted - so idk how much of a factor it winds up being.</p>
<p>double legacy at dartmouth and rejected? ouch.</p>
<p>yeah, he was capt. of the swimteam too and had taken about 9 APs & was super smart. he's at tufts now though..</p>
<p>If it counts for anything...I'm a double legacy at Gtown and was deferred EA so it may not be helpful in all cases.</p>
<p>if someone has access to admission stats, we can run a simple statistics test to see if there is a significant difference between admission of general population and admission of legacies. Post link or numbers if you got em!</p>
<p>I need the average rate of admission for legacies to run the test. Cheers</p>
<p>That would be ridiculously sick stats to get... although I have a feeling that's probably confidential...</p>
<p>well this is college confidential so we might have colleges' confidential stats. It's actually a really easy calculation if anyone finds the stat</p>
<p>your null hypothesis is that mean pop = mean legacies</p>
<p>Z score = (mean legacy - mean pop) /root((prob admi general population)x(prob failure))/sample size)</p>
<p>then take your TI-83 or higher and enter normalcdf(Z score, 99) enter</p>
<p>If the P - value is < 0.05, you caught colleges cheating for legacies. Otherwise, it's natural variance in your sample size.</p>
<p>what about sample selection bias?</p>
<p>what sample selection bias? It's the official stat from the admission committee. We could do a simple random sample on campus or try to approach a census study but in any event, unless we hand sample, there is no sampling bias.</p>
<p>I'm not sure what this would be looking to prove, since it is well-known that legacy is one of the factors taken into consideration in the the admissions process. I don't see how it would be "cheating" if its admitted up-front.</p>
<p>As for trying to run a calculation, at least one problem would be that the legacy cohort is not likely to be a representative subset of the overall applicant pool. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that legacies would have a stronger record in general than the applicant pool as a whole. You would have to control for this and that's data (avg. stats of legacies) that you're definitely not going to find anywhere.</p>
<p>set up a booth next to the sign in at the GAAP on march 27? 1 stand for signing in, 1 to report whether you're legacy? XD</p>
<p>I am a legacy and I did not apply for FA and I was deferred Early Action, so legacy doesn't count for everything.
I am woefully under-qualified though :P</p>
<p>double legacy deferred EA
a kid from my school was accepted EA but is going to decline for MIT or Harvard</p>