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Can't say if it is still true, but back when I chaired the by Irish 1978
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.