<p>Not exactly…</p>
<p>you think its a bad hook? I see it as just as good as URM</p>
<p>I don’t have hard data on Swarthmore, but at Harvard and Yale URM’s now account for a higher percentage of accepted students than Legacy’s. I don’t imagine it to be any different at Swarthmore. See: [Debating</a> Legacy Admissions at Yale, and Elsewhere - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/legacy-2/]Debating”>Debating Legacy Admissions at Yale, and Elsewhere - The New York Times)</p>
<p>"Jeffrey B. Brenzel, dean of undergraduate admissions at Yale University made the case that legacy preference at Yale College is diminishing and what remains is grounded in financial reality.</p>
<p>At Yale, legacies make up about 10 percent of the 2010-11 undergraduate class compared with 31.4 percent in 1939, he said.</p>
<p>“We turn away 80 percent of our legacies, and we feel it every day,” Mr. Brenzel said, adding that he rejected more offspring of the school’s Sterling donors than he accepted this year (Sterling donors are among the most generous contributors to Yale). He argued that legacies scored 20 points higher on the SAT than the rest of the class as a whole.</p>
<p>Mr. Brenzel made the case that low-income students represented an increasing size of Yale’s undergraduate class, even though they had less of a track record of success at the university. About 14 percent of the incoming class is supported by Pell Grant students, he said, saying that with respect to preferences, “the trend is down for legacy and up for underrepresented minorities.”</p>
<p>[Legacy</a> Admit Rate at 30 Percent | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/5/11/admissions-fitzsimmons-legacy-legacies/]Legacy”>Legacy Admit Rate at 30 Percent | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>“Fitzsimmons also said that Harvard’s undergraduate population is comprised of approximately 12 to 13 percent legacies, a group he defined as children of Harvard College alumni and Radcliffe College alumnae.”</p>
<p>“If you look at the credentials of Harvard alumni and alumnae sons and daughters, they are better candidates on average,” said Fitzsimmons, part of what he sees as the explanation for the disparity in the acceptance rate. “Very few who apply have no chance of getting in.”</p>
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<p>Impressive, but I’m puzzled as to how you can run a nonprofit by working only 8 hours a week. I imagine that’s what the employees are for? :P</p>