Harvard recognizes only one legacy status: parents graduated from the college. Not the graduate schools. Not any other family members. No sibling preference at all.

Sewanee? I have never heard of this school and I'm familiar with good small liberal arts schools like Carleton, Reed, Kenyon, etc.

The Ivies care about parents attending for legacy status...

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Anonymous wrote:Is legacy only parents or does it include grandparents/uncles/cousins etc?

It varies by the school. Northwestern asks about parents, grandparents, cousins, siblings, uncles, aunts, etc. Penn asks about parents. Harvard doesn't ask at all (but you list parents degrees on the Common App).

But Harvard is big on legacies, no? So their ADs must be going through the Common App with magnifying glasses.

Anonymous wrote:Is legacy only parents or does it include grandparents/uncles/cousins etc?

It varies by the school. Northwestern asks about parents, grandparents, cousins, siblings, uncles, aunts, etc. Penn asks about parents. Harvard doesn't ask at all (but you list parents degrees on the Common App).

Anonymous wrote:Is legacy only parents or does it include grandparents/uncles/cousins etc?

I've always thought that parents confer "primary" legacy status, and to a lesser degree grandparents (unless grandpa and grandma give generously, which can bump it up) and then other relatives, confer a sort of secondary legacy status. (And I don't think there is a real "sibling" preference if it is the same generation.)

Could be wrong though -- it's been a long time since I read whatever article dealt with this.

Is legacy only parents or does it include grandparents/uncles/cousins etc?

Any updates?

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Anonymous wrote:You find out who has been recruited where at sites that aggregate this information. For example, here are Saint Alban's class of 2013 lacrosse commits from lax power:

http://www.laxpower.com/recruits/recruits.php?action=viewRcd&db=recruits2012&q=order+by+%60HighSchool%60+asc&page=111

Sewanee and Mississppi are not the schools I would expect to see from St. Albans

1. Those listed are in the class of 2012; that is also an incomplete list that doesn't include most of the Division III players.
2. The days in which any IAC starting player could do Division I are gone. St. Albans still has a very good lacrosse program on a national scale, but has had a few lean years in the IAC of late and has not produced tons of Division I lacrosse players in the past few years. With that said, in this year's senior class there are at least three committed to play DI, including one at Yale.
3. With respect to the statement that "Sewanee and Mississippi are not the schools I would expect to see from St. Albans," I'm not sure if that is a comment on athletics recruiting or overall St. Albans success in the college process. If the former, see above -- more St. Albans lacrosse players these day go Division III than Division I. If it suggests that St. Albans doesn't have good college admissions, you may have a dated view of things -- STA does as well or better, in the sense of admissions to highly selective schools, as any independent school in this area, and you will still find more "modest" schools on their list. This is true even at the fancy NE Boarding schools these days -- the game has changed in college admissions, and good, small liberal arts college like Sewanee, where a kid can be a big contributor in sports, is a very nice option.

Anonymous wrote:You find out who has been recruited where at sites that aggregate this information. For example, here are Saint Alban's class of 2013 lacrosse commits from lax power:

http://www.laxpower.com/recruits/recruits.php?action=viewRcd&db=recruits2012&q=order+by+%60HighSchool%60+asc&page=111

Sewanee and Mississppi are not the schools I would expect to see from St. Albans

You find out who has been recruited where at sites that aggregate this information. For example, here are Saint Alban's class of 2013 lacrosse commits from lax power:

http://www.laxpower.com/recruits/recruits.php?action=viewRcd&db=recruits2012&q=order+by+%60HighSchool%60+asc&page=111

Anonymous wrote:Aren't the senior athletic recruits all recruited by now? How many, which sports, and where did they end up?

They don't do any type of school "signing ceremony" so it would be hard to know that info in the aggregate. A few Ivy bound athletes in various sports (football, lacrosse, rowing, squash), a few additional DI recruits (lacrosse, tennis), and lots of kids who will play at good academic DIII schools in sports like lacrosse, basketball, football, baseball, ice hockey.

Aren't the senior athletic recruits all recruited by now? How many, which sports, and where did they end up?

STA does not make the results on college admissions public, whether in the fall or in the spring. A few years ago they stopped publishing college matriculations.

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Anonymous wrote:How did Sidwell do this year? I know that STA's senior class is considerably smaller than Sidwell's, so I'd imagine that Sidwell has even more kids admitted to top schools.

They had a great year for National Merit Semifinalists -- something like 16-17? -- so I'd imagine they did quite well, but Sidwell doesn't post matriculation lists and the ethos seems to be to not make a big deal publicly (and kudos to them, although it throws a wrench in the old DCUM gears).

Obviously the recent info about STA is not *public*... so would be interesting to hear the numbers on Sidwell early decisions from an insider.

At Sidwell, it's my understanding that over the past few years virtually all of the Harvard admits have been legacies.