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发信人: gogo2004 (挑灯看剑), 信区: Chicago
标 题: Re: Harvard’s acceptance rate for legacies
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Nov 4 19:52:11 2014, 美东)
Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy
http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/just-to-be-clear-we-dont-d
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It’s that magical time: Your son or daughter is a high school senior,
applying to colleges, one of which is Boston College. You are a BC Law
School graduate. Does this have any bearing on your child’s application?
“Absolutely,” says Director of Undergraduate Admission John Mahoney. “
There’s a place right on the application to list parents’ biographical
information. If an applicant has a parent with a BC degree, whether it’s
undergraduate or graduate, he or she is considered an alumni child.” And
when the admissions staff sees that either mom or dad holds a BC degree, the
application is placed in the legacy pile.
What does that mean? Well, while the vast majority of BC applications are
read once and then decided upon, legacy candidates have their file examined
twice: once by an admissions counselor and once by Mahoney himself.
“The Board of Trustees would like to see alumni children make up 15 percent
of each incoming class,” he explains. “And we do that just about every
year. Last year, for example, 1,200 alumni children applied; 600 were
admitted and 320 enrolled. That’s 14.5 percent of 2,200, the size of our
freshman class.”
Mahoney stresses, however, that alumni children still have to be very strong
candidates to earn a seat in the incoming class. “US News & World Report
ranked BC as the twenty- ninth most selective college in the country in the
national four-year university category,” he says, noting that last year
admissions staffers read more than 26,000 applications for 2,200 slots. “
While alumni children are afforded extra consideration, and the acceptance
rate is higher than the general applicant pool, legacy applicants must still
have very strong credentials.”
https://www.bc.edu/schools/law/alumni/magazine/2006/winter/inbrief2.html | j*****7
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" and the acceptance rate is higher than the general applicant pool, legacy
applicants must still have very strong credentials.” |
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