<p>Are you considered a legacy if you currently have a brother or sister going to Yale?</p>
<p>As far as I remember, you are considered as a legacy if and only if your parent(s) attended Yale College, the grad school, or the professional schools. </p>
<p>Siblings do not count :(</p>
<p>[The</a> Decline of Legacy Admissions at Yale - Innovations - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/the-decline-of-legacy-admissions-at-yale/29338]The”>Innovations: The Decline of Legacy Admissions at Yale)</p>
<p>“Brenzel, to his credit, gave only a qualified defense of legacy preferences and provided some interesting data about the substantial decline in legacy admissions at Yale over time. In 1939, he said, legacies (defined as children of Yale college graduates) made up 31.4 percent the enrolled class at Yale. Today, they make up 8.7 percent. (Including the children of Yale alumni of professional and graduate schools adds a few percentage points to these totals.)”</p>
<p>When I worked a a large hospital with may Yale and Harvard educated doctors, many lamented the fact legacy didn’t give the pull it once did. Double legacy children they felt were very qualified were not admitted (although got into other fine colleges) and I’m sure many factors go into it and they spoke of the decline over the years.
One doctor joked, "Yes, the “I went there” isn’t the golden ticket anymore.</p>
<p>Crap. I thought siblings counted</p>