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

[Anonymous]

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

How much legacy, and which type of legacy, helps with admission depends on the school.

Northwestern tends to be tight-lipped about whether it helps. I know legacies who were waitlisted or denied whose parents attended grad programs, and one whose parent attended NU for undergrad. I also know a legacy whose parent attended a grad program at NU who was recently accepted, though they had high stats. It's impossible to know how much legacy helped, if at all.

Past rumor was that applicants hoping to take advantage of legacy should apply ED to NU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It does for Georgetown.

Stanford also

[Anonymous]

It depends. At Ivys or Ivy adjacent, no. Anywhere else, yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:s/o: would a grandparent who was a professor be a legacy?

No.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Not everywhere and not many currently but decades ago yes.

[Anonymous]

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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.

At some schools it is. Vandy comes to mind. I believe they started this practice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Not everywhere and not many currently but decades ago yes.

Boston College pays for faculty’s kids. Nice story about a BC janitor whose kids all went through BC- fully paid. I have a relative head of a department all 5 kids were paid for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Not everywhere and not many currently but decades ago yes.

Boston College pays for faculty’s kids. Nice story about a BC janitor whose kids all went through BC- fully paid. I have a relative head of a department all 5 kids were paid for.

^ employees not just profs. Not sure what the timetable is- how long u have to work there, etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

To be fair, Hopkins is not popular in the DMV area. It's not a "fun" school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

To be fair, Hopkins is not popular in the DMV area. It's not a "fun" school.

Which is why it’s perfect for a kid that needs to reign in party mode. We found plenty of fun while there, you can always find your people—but it’s going to be muted compared to the kind of trouble you can get into at a large state school. What I don’t need is to send an impulsive 18 year old boy into that…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It does for Georgetown.

Really? Wow- good to know!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It does for Georgetown.

Nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

To be fair, Hopkins is not popular in the DMV area. It's not a "fun" school.

Don’t know why JHU wouldn’t be classified as a fun school. It’s in a darned fun area, to begin with.

[Anonymous]

Yes for Stanford and UVA as well.

[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

Oh no how will they stay open without a quid pro quo for your $200?