<p>My grandfather and father went to UVA. I spoke with an admissions counselor and he said that this means that IS students will be selected first, then legacies, then OOS. Is this a huge advantage because I don't have to compete with the hungry OOS kids fighting for the 33%?</p>
<p>I have always heard that legacies (for which you qualify) will be treated as instate students. Yes, I do think this will be very nice advantage for you. Best of luck to you!</p>
<p>Yeah, oos legacies are treated as in-state for admissions purposes. I'm one as well. I heard this via e-mail from the admissions people at UVa.</p>
<p>I have often wondered whether a third generation legacy stands on the same, better or worse footing than a double legacy. Not to get too involved in the jargon but I guess my D is a third generation legacy (Grandfather and father attended) and my son, should he attend, would be a third generation, double legacy (Grandfather, father and sister). I also have never been straight on whether a legacy, although considered in state for admission purposes, stands on the same footing as all other in state applicants. Just curious on a rainy day up here in the North country.</p>
<p>IS kids will always get preference to meet the state govt's requirements. No legacy, however many generations, will out beat an IS kid if they need to meet numbers. Even with the same scores/numbers/overall strength, I still think IS kids win.</p>
<p>I sometimes find it ironic that UVA claims to be committed to economic and socioeconomic diversity, yet they give legacies, who obviously have privileged backgrounds if their parents went there, a huge boost in admissions. Not necessarily for or against it, I just find it somewhat amusing.</p>
<p>I don't think having siblings that attended counts as legacy. And from what i've understood, double legacies have no advantage over single legacies.</p>
<p>I've heard directly from multiple legitimate sources that OOS legacies are evaluated as though they're instate applicants.</p>
<p>jOHN ROSS, I highly doubt that an OOS double legacy is given any different consideration from an OOS single or triple legacy. Where it gets interesting is when the legacy applicant in question has parents or family members who have given large sums of money to UVA.</p>
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<p>Meaningless conjecture, shoebox. It's more likely that the OOS legacy would displace the OOS non-legacy. UVA evaluates OOS legacy applicants the same way it evaluates IS applicants, but it's not making them compete for the same seats.</p>
<p>The only person that makes a student a legacy is their parent or step parent. Having others alumni in the family isn't noted. It isn't even asked on the application.</p>
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This widespread practice is a major point of the book The Price of Admission. It's an interesting read.</p>
<p>STEPparents count but not GRANDparents? That's odd that a non-bloodline relationship would be more helpful as compared to direct lineage.</p>
<p>this isn't the french royal court, motherdear. its college admissions. the school will cater to who pays the bill--which the overwhelmingly majority of the time is the parents/step parents, not granddad who graduated in 1950 and hasn't been to the school since the Korean War.</p>
<p>Dean J: Thanks, I'll have to check that out.</p>
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My pleasure. It's a quick read, though not exactly a "feel good" book because of the subject matter. I</a> wrote about it last year on my blog.</p>
<p>Ok, now I really want to read it. I read "The College Admissions Mystique" over the summer, and it was pretty intriguing, and funny at times. Another interesting read, if anyone is interested.</p>