Legacy Admissions at Ivy League Schools

Harvard admits legacy applicants at five times the rate of non-legacies—a 30% acceptance rate vs. 6% for the general pool—yet no elite university has voluntarily eliminated this inherited privilege after the Supreme Court's 2023 affirmative action ban. This practice perpetuates advantage more starkly than #3's policy shift, as legacy admissions confer an advantage equal to an extra 160 SAT points, according to a 2018 study.