Ivy Legacies

[Marco Anglesio]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Justin Schwartz wrote:
> Even today, at Princeton, an alumni child had a 40% chance of admission, as 
> opposed to to about 10% for the general population. There were plenty of 
> them in my time, four years after Doug's. . . . I married one! (Her dad, 
> class of '49, got in on the GI Bill.)

It doesn't seem to be restricted to US universities, either. Queen's
(University at Kingston), my alma mater, seems to take it into account,
too. 

That said, is it any harder to get a degree at one university than any
other? It's my understanding that variation in this respect is quite
small, although there may be more top-quartile competition at elite
schools than others.

Marco

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