Is being a faculty parent a hook?

[Anonymous]

If you are faculty at a top 20 university is that a hook for college admissions for your kid?

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

Why would someone who is a faculty parent applying to college?

[Anonymous]

For the faculty where they teach, probably, all else being equal and depending on size of college.

[Anonymous]

Where they teach, yes.

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

Most colleges have tuition exchange. So if you work at a college/university -- there is a good chance that wherever your kid goes -- he/she will get 25K off yearly tuition -- or sometimes more through the exchange. It's not really an exchange -- that's just what it is called

I have a friend who used this for all three kids -- different colleges - different amounts.

[Anonymous]

At UMD it is not a hook, but you do get tuition remission. The student has to have the qualifications for entrance, if they are not accepted the family will be personally informed of a pathway to the entrance (ie community college with transfer options).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most colleges have tuition exchange. So if you work at a college/university -- there is a good chance that wherever your kid goes -- he/she will get 25K off yearly tuition -- or sometimes more through the exchange. It's not really an exchange -- that's just what it is called

I have a friend who used this for all three kids -- different colleges - different amounts.

This is being phased out. Georgetown for example has made its plan way less generous.

[Anonymous]

It is a definite hook. Faculty kids get preference getting in. It is less a lottery for faculty kids.
If you have the stats to get in or are very close, you will get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is a definite hook. Faculty kids get preference getting in. It is less a lottery for faculty kids.
If you have the stats to get in or are very close, you will get in.

Yes. Absolutely yes !

This is the reason that Milton Academy places so well into Harvard and the Lawrenceville School into Princeton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a definite hook. Faculty kids get preference getting in. It is less a lottery for faculty kids.
If you have the stats to get in or are very close, you will get in.

Yes. Absolutely yes !

This is the reason that Milton Academy places so well into Harvard and the Lawrenceville School into Princeton.

Most H faculty kids I know attended BB&N or Noble & Greenough. A typical progression is from the Harvard faculty and staff preschool on campus to BB&N

[Anonymous]

At the top schools it depends on the prestige of the faculty member. It’s not a lottery…The kid of the Nobel winner who chairs the powerhouse department is going to fare better than the average faculty member.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a definite hook. Faculty kids get preference getting in. It is less a lottery for faculty kids.
If you have the stats to get in or are very close, you will get in.

Yes. Absolutely yes !

This is the reason that Milton Academy places so well into Harvard and the Lawrenceville School into Princeton.

Most H faculty kids I know attended BB&N or Noble & Greenough. A typical progression is from the Harvard faculty and staff preschool on campus to BB&N

Agree, but that does not negate my post regarding Milton Academy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most colleges have tuition exchange. So if you work at a college/university -- there is a good chance that wherever your kid goes -- he/she will get 25K off yearly tuition -- or sometimes more through the exchange. It's not really an exchange -- that's just what it is called

I have a friend who used this for all three kids -- different colleges - different amounts.

This is being phased out. Georgetown for example has made its plan way less generous.

There is actually a formal tuition exchange separate from the school-specific tuition benefit a lot of schools offer. It's mostly small private schools, no Ivies, state schools or top SLACS, but a few bigger names. Tuitionexchange.org.

My husband is faculty at a participating school and it doesn't offer an admissions advantage, you have to apply competitively to the exchange AND member schools, but the benefit is 41k. Which is great because said university doesn't even pay faculty twice that.