<p>lehighgal, thanks for the admissions report covering Hotchkiss in the spring of 2008. This report is helpful. Still, these stats don’t prove that over 35% of the students at THS are legacies; it just shows that 61% of the legacies applying to THS for the fall of 2009 received admission. We can’t tell from this report what percent of all students enrolling that fall were legacies. </p>
<p>We can tell from this report, however, that it sure helps to be a legacy if you are applying to THS. But then it sure helps to be a legacy when applying to any BS. Nothing new there. What we may now conclude is that it seems that legacies may be admitted at a higher rate at THS than some other BS’s. Fine. BS’s are private schools and can accept whomever they wish. That said, it would be great if each BS published percentages and absolute numbers on legacies attending its school. Because, however, such numbers could scare away applications, I understand why it is so hard to find these percentages and numbers. Thanks agian, lehighgal, in finding some of this info on at least one BS.</p>