<p>I applied EA, and had decent stats with good essays -- and my grandpa graduated with a phd from UNC-- is this a school where that would help me out to some degree?</p>
<p>yes, it would help</p>
<p>i've heard that if you're out of state, legacy status will cause them to consider your application by "in-state standards"</p>
<p>don't know how true that is, but i do know that being a legacy helps at least a little!</p>
<p>In most schools it would not help. Usually, legacy is defined as a parent who has graduated from the same part of the school where you are applying. Grad school, law schools, med schools don't count. However, schools do have different definitions, and I don't know what UNC defines as legacy. Look it up, or ask them.</p>
<p>Being a legacy will not put you in the in-state applicant pool if you are out-of-state. However, it is true that being a legacy student OOS is considered, while being a legacy student while in-state generally is not.</p>
<p>In any case -- it can't hurt you. But I suspect it won't help a whole lot, either, particularly in the case of a graduate degree that a grandparent received.</p>