<p>Does MIT take legacy into consideration for undergraduate admission?</p>
<p>No. Legacies do not get a boost in MIT admissions.</p>
<p>They do apparently get an extra review during the admissions process, although it has been asserted that no rejections have ever been reversed because of that extra review. {But if that’s really true, then that begs the question of why they even hold that extra review in the first place.}</p>
<p>Well, normally all accepted students are reviewed by the dean of admissions personally anyway. And decisions are never reversed at that point, either. I think the dean just likes to know what he or she is signing off on.</p>
<p>At any rate, I’m not sure if the review of rejected legacies continues under Stu Schmill.</p>
<p>I hear that the reason they get that extra review by the dean of admissions is so that when the parents call to complain about why their child was rejected, the dean can say that he looked over the application himself, and the student is still rejected.</p>