Does Parent's Graduate School Count for "Legacy" Status for an Undergraduate Application?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the vast majority of universities: no. Legacy is for undergrad, but even many of the top universities are starting to do away with legacy preference.

Hopkins already got rid of it.

my kids get screwed with two JHU alum as parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ A school employee is not a legacy.

Faculty kids do get a bump/status like legacy. I'm not sure if they have to be 'active/current' employees.

[Anonymous]

Nope. Every time someone from my lawschool (or even worse, the university) calls asking for money, I remind them before declining to donate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. Every time someone from my lawschool (or even worse, the university) calls asking for money, I remind them before declining to donate

+1,000,000

my husband donated every year since graduation, even when he was penniless. And then they pulled away the legacy status very recently, just when our kids reached high school age. Our kids have the stats (above the 75% line for scores/grades) and if they don't get in, he already has a letter ready to be mailed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the vast majority of universities: no. Legacy is for undergrad, but even many of the top universities are starting to do away with legacy preference.

Hopkins already got rid of it.

my kids get screwed with two JHU alum as parents.

yep, mine too.

[Anonymous]

It doesn't make any sense to extend it to the alums of all of a university's graduate/professional schools. Some of the Ivies have 8 different schools. This is hundreds of thousands of legacies.

Add in grandparents and faculty/staff and past faculty/staff of all these schools and you could have a million households with these preferences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^ A school employee is not a legacy.

Faculty kids do get a bump/status like legacy. I'm not sure if they have to be 'active/current' employees.

Can not do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't make any sense to extend it to the alums of all of a university's graduate/professional schools. Some of the Ivies have 8 different schools. This is hundreds of thousands of legacies.

Add in grandparents and faculty/staff and past faculty/staff of all these schools and you could have a million households with these preferences.

+1 hearing this is turning me off GU, especially when it has the lowest endowment of all top 20 schools. The alum aren’t even donating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the vast majority of universities: no. Legacy is for undergrad, but even many of the top universities are starting to do away with legacy preference.

Hopkins already got rid of it.

my kids get screwed with two JHU alum as parents.

I wouldn't mind so much if every other article is bragging about how they have driven legacy numbers into the ground. It makes it sound like not only do you not get preference, it actually can be a hinderance.

[Anonymous]

It does for Duke!

[Anonymous]

I posted earlier about generous legacy preference, I do want to clarify from what I've heard it does not necessarily help for 'first reading of application" but will help in subsequent rounds.

I'm not sure how much longer GU's legacy preference can last. There is an enormous amount of pressure to eliminate it at top schools.

[Anonymous]

Anyone know about Northwestern? Does legacy help if it is the parent who attended the undergraduate school?

[Anonymous]

It’s complicated….

https://www.dccollegecounseling.com/blog/legacydefinition

[Anonymous]

Totally depends on the school. It counts at Notre Dame. That I know.

[Anonymous]

I have been donating to my Ivy law school since graduating. If that gives my kid legacy status, well, great. If not, well, they still lifted me out of poverty.