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Additionally, people in this thread keep talking about legacy status like it’s an easy in. How legacy works varies by school, but at the Ivy I attended, it gave
by tnecniv 3y ago
Additionally, people in this thread keep talking about legacy status like it’s an easy in. How legacy works varies by school, but at the Ivy I attended, it gave you double the chance of getting in and only if you applied early (they showed the numbers). However doubling a 7% acceptance rate to 14% still doesn’t give you great odds.
These schools turn out thousands of graduates a year with the larger ones turning out 10 thousand or so (only counting bachelors students). In any given year, there’s A LOT of students with legacy status, and, unless your last name is on a building or you are a competitive applicant regardless of your legacy status, you aren’t getting in.