<p>How often do double legacy students/legacy students get rejected?</p>
<p>33% of incoming students (at least for 2014) were legacy students. However not all legacy students who apply are admitted because you still have to get good grades and test scores and have really good essays and ECs. I doubt double legacy makes any difference as opposed to single but you might have a better shot than the rest of the applicants (who aren’t legacy)</p>
<p>Actually, for 2014 freshman, 19% were legacy. <a href=“https://about.usc.edu/files/2014/10/USCFreshmanProfile.2014.pdf”>https://about.usc.edu/files/2014/10/USCFreshmanProfile.2014.pdf</a> That might sound positive, but it really is hard to fathom what that number represents without knowing what % of the applicants were legacy. USC does not disclose that figure. As you can see by looking through past years of posts on CC, it appears that legacy status no longer holds much, if any, extra power in admissions, so I generally suggest legacy applicants to keep their hopes realistic. There seems to be a better chance for legacy admission help in Spring admissions, though.</p>
<p>You are both sort of wrong and sort of right.</p>
<p>From what I was told at an alumni admissions seminar, the admit rate for legacies is around 33% (still significantly higher than the overall admit rate of around 18%) while the 19% legacy number is more accurate in terms of the composition of the incoming class.</p>
<p>As with a lot of schools (and organizations in general), being a legacy helps but it’s more like a fourth, fifth, or sixth factor (if not the tenth) rather than THE determining factor. With the university’s rise in the last 20 years, USC is matriculating an entirely different caliber of student and there are lots of bitter older alumni whose kids can’t get in nowadays. Likewise, there are a lot of alumni nowadays who truly WANT their children to attend USC specifically rather than simply considering it to be any random old school out there.</p>
Here are percentages of legacy students enrolled for the past few years.
In 2008 the percentage of legacy students enrolled in the freshmen class was 23%.
In 2009 22%
In 2010 20%
In 2011 20%
In 2012 24%
In 2013 21%
In 2014 19%
Source: Freshmen Class Profiles
At least some rejected legacy applicants are offered the TTP (Trojan Tranfer Plan). Under this plan, students meet with a USC advisor and work out a freshman year somewhere else with the plan to transfer if certain conditions are met (certain grades in specific classes, for example). This can be a decent way for rejected legacies to get into USC, and often saves money that first year-- not the ideal way obviously.
Is this information still true?