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Colleges that no longer consider legacy

At these colleges, having a parent or relative who attended gives you no admissions advantage, according to their own Common Data Set. Some never weighed legacy; others dropped it recently, and several public universities are now barred from legacy preference by state law.

If you are a first-generation or no-connection applicant, these are schools where you compete on a level field. If you are a legacy hoping for a boost, do not count on one here. Either way, see where your full profile lands with the chances calculator.

167 schools on this list

Caltech admits 3% Tsinghua admits 5% NUS admits 6% NYU admits 7.7% UCLA admits 8.7% St Andrews admits 9% TU Munich admits 9% Carnegie Mellon admits 11% Cooper Union admits 11% UC Berkeley admits 11.6% Georgia Tech admits 12% HKU admits 12% UVA admits 12.5% Cape Town admits 13% Imperial admits 14% Oxford admits 14% Peking admits 15% LSE admits 16% Wesleyan admits 16% SNU admits 17% CUHK admits 18% Yonsei admits 18% Cardiff admits 20% Lancaster admits 20% Sciences Po admits 20% Cambridge admits 21% ESADE admits 22% Florida admits 24% FSU admits 24% KAIST admits 25% Olin admits 25% St. Gallen admits 25% KCL admits 26% ETH Zurich admits 27% Reed admits 27% UT Austin admits 27% Kyoto admits 28% UC San Diego admits 28% Cal Poly SLO admits 28.8% UC Irvine admits 29% HKUST admits 30% NTU Singapore admits 30% Sydney admits 30% IE University admits 32% Trinity Dublin admits 33% UC Santa Barbara admits 33% ANU admits 35% Bocconi admits 35% UNSW admits 35% Tokyo admits 36% SDSU admits 37% Binghamton admits 38% UW admits 39% Monash admits 40% TU Delft admits 40% UCF admits 40% Illinois admits 42% Tennessee admits 42% Syracuse admits 43% Toronto admits 43% Maryland admits 44% Queen Mary admits 44% UC Davis admits 44% Auckland admits 45% LMU admits 45% Queen's admits 45% UCD admits 45% UQ admits 45% McGill admits 46% Amsterdam admits 47% Stony Brook admits 49% Wisconsin admits 49% Maastricht admits 50% Purdue admits 50% RIT admits 50% Swansea admits 51% Bard admits 52% MIT admits 52% UBC admits 52% UConn admits 52% Edinburgh admits 53% Erasmus Rotterdam admits 53% Waterloo admits 53% overall; ~10-15% Engineering/CS Concordia admits 55% KU Leuven admits 55% Strathclyde admits 55% Texas A&M admits 57% Virginia Tech admits 57% Warwick admits 57% York U (Canada) admits 57% Alberta admits 58% Durham admits 58% Pitt admits 58% Rutgers admits 58% Western admits 58% Calgary admits 60% Leeds admits 60% Manchester admits 60% McMaster admits 60% Ohio State admits 60% SFU admits 60% South Carolina admits 60% UMass Amherst admits 60% Penn State admits 61% Beloit admits 63% Leiden admits 63% UCL admits 63% Lawrence admits 64% UVic admits 64% Bath admits 65% Surrey admits 65% Sussex admits 65% UEA admits 65% Utrecht admits 65% Bristol admits 67% Buffalo admits 67% Exeter admits 68% Guelph admits 68% Sheffield admits 68% Liverpool admits 69% Texas Tech admits 69% DePaul admits 70% Glasgow admits 70% Leicester admits 70% Melbourne admits 70% Nottingham admits 70% Ottawa admits 70% Birmingham admits 72% JMU admits 72% Loughborough admits 72% Queen's Belfast admits 72% URI admits 72% UC Santa Cruz admits 72.7% Earlham admits 73% Arkansas admits 74% Houston admits 74% Adelaide admits 75% Dalhousie admits 75% Hampshire admits 75% SLU admits 75% UGA admits 75% UC Riverside admits 76% Minnesota admits 77% Oregon State admits 77% Drexel admits 78% Indiana admits 78% Mizzou admits 78% CU Boulder admits 79% York admits 79% Reading admits 80% Southampton admits 80% Aberdeen admits 82% Loyola Chicago admits 82% Iowa admits 84% Cincinnati admits 85% Groningen admits 85% Michigan State admits 85% Oregon admits 86% George Mason admits 87% Nebraska admits 87% Utah admits 87% Washington State admits 87% Kansas admits 88% UNH admits 88% ASU admits 90% Kentucky admits 93% UC Merced admits 95.1%

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