<p>Hello!
I've recently become very interested in attending Yale. I know how difficult it is to get in, and I know being a legacy can help.</p>
<p>My step-grandfather attended Yale. I just discovered that he adopted my mom after he married my grandmother. So, legally, he's my mother's father, and my grandfather. Does that make me a legacy at Yale?</p>
<p>Legacy = your mom or dad attended Yale as an undergraduate. Aunts, uncles, grandparents, step-grandparents attending the college does not count as a legacy, nor does it count having anyone, including your mom or dad, attend any of Yale’s graduate schools.</p>
<p>I don’t think your correct gibby. Some legacy (mother, father) probably count more than grandparents, but they are still legacy.</p>
<p>gibby is correct. In one Yale info session, I specifically asked this question and the definition is what gibby gave, even siblings are not count as legacy.</p>
<p>^^ in addition, there is absolutely no space on either the Common Application or the Yale Supplement to list any other relations besides your mom, dad, and siblings.</p>
<p>Well actually the Yale supplement asks the applicant to list relatives who attended Yale and the year of their graduation.
Take a look at this pdf of an old Yale supplement; it asks for parents, grandparents, and also other relatives <a href=“http://img2.tigtag.com/attachment/home/college_mgr/1201/12783865806YH3.pdf[/url]”>http://img2.tigtag.com/attachment/home/college_mgr/1201/12783865806YH3.pdf</a></p>
<p>The operative word in your post is “old” as those questions to the best of my knowledge were not on the 2009 Yale Supplement when my daughter applied, nor were they on the 2011 supplement when my son applied. Once a student is admitted, there are a bunch of questions asking if you are related to certain Yale alumni, but those are used for financial aid purposes.</p>
<p>In addition see: <a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/legacy-2/[/url]”>http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/legacy-2/</a></p>
<p>Why do you think the Yale supplement still asks students to list all relatives who attended Yale?</p>
<p>One reason I can think of is some people endowed certain things in case any relative gets admitted. Think Anderson Cooper '89 and the Vanderbilt suite </p>
<p><a href=“http://yaledailynews.com/weekend/2005/02/04/legendary-vanderbilt-suite-is-the-sweetest-of-on-campus-abodes/[/url]”>http://yaledailynews.com/weekend/2005/02/04/legendary-vanderbilt-suite-is-the-sweetest-of-on-campus-abodes/</a></p>
<p>Thanks for the responses. A little disappointing as I’m trying to get as much of a leg-up as I can, but oh well. I’ll just keep working hard and hope for the best!</p>
<p>parents and grandparents are both considered legacies - a grandparent legacy is less of a hook but it is still considered a legacy at Yale. The supplement still asks for all relatives who have attended.
Aunts, uncles, siblings are not legacies.</p>
<p>From Yale’s Office of Institutional Research:<br>
“13% of matriculants were Yale College and/or Graduate and Professional School legacies.”</p>
<p>Yale apparently keeps up with GPS children, not just children of Yale College grads, so it must make some marginal difference.</p>
<p>The simple bottom line is to list it if the form asks for this information. It may help you a tiny bit, but probably not much.</p>
<p>they say on common app if they attended “yale university” not “yale college”</p>
<p>[The</a> Decline of Legacy Admissions at Yale ? Innovations - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/the-decline-of-legacy-admissions-at-yale/29338]The”>http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/the-decline-of-legacy-admissions-at-yale/29338)</p>
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<p>Based upon the above, it would seem – all things being equal – that low-income students have a better shot of being admitted to Yale than a legacy.</p>
<p>So, “indigent legacy” is the way to go then?</p>
<p>^^ That’ll do it, for sure!</p>