<p>My grandmother went to the university of michigan when she was younger but was unable to finish her degree because of family and financial issues. Is it worth noting? Do i count as a legacy?</p>
<p>Thanks, God Bless</p>
<p>Not sure if that help, but it does ask on the CommonApp supplement for UMich if you have relatives attended UMich. So your grandma did attend.</p>
<p>“My grandmother went to the university of michigan when she was younger but was unable to finish her degree because of family and financial issues. Is it worth noting? Do i count as a legacy?”</p>
<p>Keep in mind that the dictionary definition for alumna/alumnus/alumni is someone who “attended” OR “graduated”. Your grandmother, by definition, is an alumna. I make these points because I’m not familiar with the wording on application: if they use any of the three above, you should be able to say yes. If they use the word “legacy” I’ll defer to billcsho’ assessment.</p>
<p>^ The form ask exactly if “relatives attended”.</p>
<p>You should answer “yes” to the question since your Grandmother is a close relative and she attended. But Michigan does not place much weight on this.</p>
<p>Michigan has over 500,000 living alumni. I can’t imagine being a legacy counts for much anymore, unfortunately.</p>
<p>blprof, Harvard has 300,000 living alumni (more than half of Michigan’s alumni), and its undergraduate population is almost four times smaller than Michigan’s. On a per capita ratio, theoretically, Michigan should be able to give legacies a bigger push. Of course, that is not the case as Harvard clearly favors legacies more, though that has nothing to do with the number of alumni, but with admissions philosophy. Michigan simply does not place that much weight on legacies.</p>
<p>I think the belief that being a legacy will help much in most college admission is a fallacy. The Harvard newspaper, “The Crimson” does a study of the incoming class each year. Since its run by students, even politically incorrect results are published. Students are stratified by income, race, athlete status and legacy status and each group compared by SAT. The Legacy students this year had a mean SAT score 59 points HIGHER than the school average.</p>