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Stanford certainly gives an advantage to legacy admissions.

I've posted this before, but my friend who is a Stanford admissions officer says that legacy status is only rarely taken into account as a tiebreaker between two candidates they can't otherwise decide between, and that donors need to be at a "name on a building" level before that is considered.

There are other more obvious reasons why the Stanford student body contains a higher-than-random number of children of alumni.

[cctop]

Stanford certainly gives an advantage to legacy admissions.

I've posted this before, but my friend who is a Stanford admissions officer says that legacy status is only rarely taken into account as a tiebreaker between two candidates they can't otherwise decide between, and that donors need to be at a "name on a building" level before that is considered.

There are other more obvious reasons why the Stanford student body contains a higher-than-random number of children of alumni.