At the end of the day legacy students and their families bring in millions (maybe billions), why would they risk that by preventing a legacy student from admission. The positives greatly outweigh the cons.
When I went to Stanford there was a good amount of legacy students and tbh you can't really tell. If you come from wealth and aren't able to get into a top school you are most likely an idiot, and Stanford does a decent job filtering out the real stupid legacies.
At the end of the day legacy students and their families bring in millions (maybe billions), why would they risk that by preventing a legacy student from admission. The positives greatly outweigh the cons.
When I went to Stanford there was a good amount of legacy students and tbh you can't really tell. If you come from wealth and aren't able to get into a top school you are most likely an idiot, and Stanford does a decent job filtering out the real stupid legacies.