[jacket3ree]

Of course Stanford gives legacy preference, on a sliding scale based on legacy donation. I know two stone-cold cases personally. One from the mid 80s and one from the 2010s.  If your name is on buildings or athletic fields and you are related to the people who paid for those named buildings or fields, you're in.  One was denied until a threatened donation cutoff call was made. The other was never going to be denied in a million years even had that person been a functional illiterate. Both made it through school just fine, but without those names, admission was as Dr. King Shultz would say, "a dubious proposition at best" on their own merit.

Yeah, two cases decades apart doesn't prove anything, except that it probably does.

[jacket3ree]

Of course Stanford gives legacy preference, on a sliding scale based on legacy donation. I know two stone-cold cases personally. One from the mid 80s and one from the 2010s.  If your name is on buildings or athletic fields and you are related to the people who paid for those named buildings or fields, you're in.  One was denied until a threatened donation cutoff call was made. The other was never going to be denied in a million years even had that person been a functional illiterate. Both made it through school just fine, but without those names, admission was as Dr. King Shultz would say, "a dubious proposition at best" on their own merit.

Yeah, two cases decades apart doesn't prove anything, except that it probably does.