High-school students all over the country are putting the finishing touches on their college applications.

Chances are, they all want to know the secret to increasing their chances of gaining acceptance into college. The answer is actually quite simple: go to the same school as one of your parents.

While legacy status — the term used to indicate a family member attended the same school — has been recognized anecdotally as providing a benefit to college applicants, education startup AdmitSee has used data it collects to definitively prove this correlation.

Admitsee is a platform that has 60,000 profiles of students who have read more >>>

Source:: BusinessInsider.Com