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Really? Seems pretty easy to analyze. Just take legacy applicants and their non-legacy equivalents and see the admittance rates.

• peteretep 10y ago
  If ability has a strong genetic component, one would expect a higher acceptance of legacy students.
  • seanmcdirmid 10y ago
    Even if ability has a strong nurture component, one would expect the same.
• seanmcdirmid 10y ago
  Difficult to do if you aren't even tracking what applications are legacy in the first place, they'd at least have to ask a sample of admitted and rejected students post facto.
  • tabeth 10y ago
    Ah. I assumed in this scenario we had some mechanism to determine who is a legacy applicant (or not). You make a good point.