<p>As an Asian junior, I'm pretty terrified about college admissions. I am trying to decide whether I want to Early Decision/Action Yale or Brown. I love both schools, but I was thinking Brown for ED because it is a bit less selective, and my parents and I would all love for this craziness to end sooner through an early acceptance. But if I am a legacy applicant to Yale, I figure my odds would be better applying to Yale.</p>
<p>Both my parents came from China to Yale and recieved their P.H.Ds, physics and chem, from Yale and donate to Yale every year (though not especially substantial). Some kids told me I wasn't actually legacy because for legacy, your parents need to have gone to undergrad.</p>
<p>So my question is, am I legacy and will applying to Yale Early Action be less demanding than Early Decision to Brown?</p>
<p>Even if you are not a legacy, the fact that both parents received their P.H.Ds AND donate every year would most likely give you an edge then if you applied to Brown.</p>
<p>*According to a 2004 Yale Alumni magazine article Q&A with Rick Levine, Yale University President at the time:
Y: About 14 percent of last year’s entering freshmen were children or grandchildren of alumni of the college, graduate school, or professional schools. The admissions rate for legacies is about 30 percent – three times the rate for non-legacies.</p>
<p>L: It’s important to understand that being a legacy does not guarantee admission to Yale College. But the pool of legacy applicants is substantially stronger than the average of the rest of the pool. The grades and test scores of the legacies we admit are higher than the average of the rest of the admitted class, and the legacies that matriculate achieve higher grades at Yale than non-legacy students with the same high school grades and test scores.</p>
<p>When you stop to think about it, this isn’t so surprising. Legacy students are coming from highly educated households, where books, reading, and cultural life are prized. They tend to be more exposed to and more serious about intellectual matters. We are admitting very strong students as legacies.
(from [Yale</a> Alumni Magazine: Rick Levin Q&A](<a href=“http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2004_11/q_a.html]Yale”>http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2004_11/q_a.html))*</p>
<p>I cannot speak to Yale, but in general terms. I do know that at Columbia parent/grandparent must have gone to the undergrad program for legacy status to apply.</p>
<p>So Mrs. Weasley is the president of yale implying that the children of alumni from college graduate school and professional schools are all legacies? I’m in a similar situation as chenman because my parents both did their residencies at yale.</p>
<p>There is no way a parent doing a residency at Yale will make you a legacy but the OP may be one as some colleges (Stanford for one) do count grad school parents. Call and ask. You need the legacy sticker on your folder to get legacy treatment, at most top colleges that takes having an undergrad parent.</p>
<p>Well the quote from the president of yale mentions graduate school alumni in the same breathe as legacies and isn’t a residency graduate level education in medicine? Also my mother did a fellowship there it seems like that must be associated with the various types of schools the quote mentioned</p>