Can't say if it is still true, but back when I chaired the

Can't say if it is still true, but back when I chaired the
by Irish 1978 (2019-03-18 12:07:59)
Edited on 2019-03-18 12:08:41

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Alumni Schools Committee for the Washington D.C. Alumni Club I once asked my contact in the ND Admissions Office about legacies having an advantage over the general admissions pool. She told me she didn't think it really had an impact. That they did have a soft target of a percentage of the admitted class being legacy; however, just the shear number of accepted qualified applicants who happened to be legacies met the number year-in and year-out without having to deny non-legacy applicants in order to meet a goal.

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Legacies - ODDMAN 2019-03-18 16:37:08
I doubt that there is any appreciable difference in quali- - 1NDGal 2019-03-18 12:54:30
- Legacy applicants at ND are 2x more likely to be admitted - NavyJoe 2019-03-18 13:58:50
  - I think the statistic was that the % of legacies is higher - 1NDGal 2019-03-18 15:15:04
  - I think the word "preferential" is not appropriate here - ufl 2019-03-18 14:33:14
    - Ok, I agree the article does not say that - NavyJoe 2019-03-18 14:45:42
      - You can be skeptical, but that isn't data. * - NDWahoo 2019-03-18 18:09:28
        In 2015, Legacy admit rate was 45%...20% for non-legacy (link) - NavyJoe 2019-03-18 18:24:22
        that shows admit rates, not preferential treatment - NDWahoo 2019-03-19 09:13:19
      - I don't have the data but I'm not so sure you're correct - ufl 2019-03-18 14:49:37
- IIRC, it's openly admitted to be a consideration. - doolinbanjos 2019-03-18 13:05:19
  - As I allude to below, I think what you have to remember is - Tex Francisco 2019-03-18 13:41:54
    - I think it still gets to the same place. - doolinbanjos 2019-03-18 14:45:16
I suspect that the difference betweeen the admitted Legacy - 3rdSt 2019-03-18 12:17:22
- It wouldn't shock me if legacies were actually - Tex Francisco 2019-03-18 12:45:48
  - A legacy kid applying REA (early) signals to ND... - domer 2019-03-18 16:07:55