@GeronimoAlpaca your post is really interesting and no doubt what you said here is true. I still think legacy will have a positive impact on an application but Notre Dame will advertise these connections less and less. On a slightly different topic, when my family went out for accepted Gateway students visit, my husband and I couldn’t believe the strong legacy presence from the parents of these gateway prospects. We met 8 sets of parents and each family had at least one parent who attended ND and sometimes both. Out of the 8 parents there was one family who had no legacy connection but was strongly hooked with a Mendoza connection. ND still values these relationships, but the legacy factor is definitely not a guarantee anymore if it ever was. Does anyone know where the acceptance rate and yield are at for 2019? Are these numbers out yet? I’m really curious about the yield.