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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Assuming your child is clearly in the admit pool - top test scores, strong transcript, etc. - AND your child applies early decision, then legacy will make a difference. Admission officers do not look up donation records. If a family is a development case, then the fundraising group will notify the admissions office. But, admissions officers know alumni who do interviews and its always harder to deny a child of someone you know, even if the parent recuses herself that year. [/quote]

Don't colleges that do alumni interviews REQUIRE alumni interviewers to step aside the year that a family member is applying to the school?  Even if the interviewer isn't interviewing at a son's or daughter's high school, there is an appearance of a conflict of interest in interviewing others who are applying from the area that year.[/quote]

Yes, they all require you to take a year off when your own child is applying. That's what I meant by recuse. But if you've been doing interviews for a while, the admissions officer gets to know your write-ups and you've spoken to each other, covered college fairs for them, exchanges emails, etc. then they know you in a way that they don't know the hundreds of other applications they read every year. Obviously, if you've been a complete bozo and the admissions officer thinks you're a terrible representative for the college, then good luck to your DC. It's only human nature that favorable impressions carry over.[/quote]

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