> These kinds of stats are basically impossible to produce while children of alumni get to skip the queue and get in much more easily
Only some schools take into account legacy status, so wouldn't it be possible to do comparisons between schools that do and schools that do not to get those kind of stats? Many students apply to the same school their parents went to even if being the child of alumni does not give them a boost.
Of the top 10 universities in the world, according to US News & World Reports 2018 list, 4 take into account legacy status (Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and Stanford) [1].
6 do not (MIT, UC Berkeley, Oxford, Caltech, Cambridge, University of Washington).
Only some schools take into account legacy status, so wouldn't it be possible to do comparisons between schools that do and schools that do not to get those kind of stats? Many students apply to the same school their parents went to even if being the child of alumni does not give them a boost.
Of the top 10 universities in the world, according to US News & World Reports 2018 list, 4 take into account legacy status (Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and Stanford) [1].
6 do not (MIT, UC Berkeley, Oxford, Caltech, Cambridge, University of Washington).
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/16/top-universities-that-do-not...