<p>So my father went to my dream IVY university, except he was arrested after graduating after committing fraud. It was a federal offense, and if you search his name on google a couple of web articles will detail his crime.</p>
<p>Should I still list him as my father in hopes of using him as a legacy, or would it only hurt my application?</p>
<p>I’d probably avoid it to be honest. You could risk it, but something tells me they wouldn’t want the son of a fraudulent student there, no offense to you of course. Especially Ivy’s and their pretentious attitudes and all their prestige. :/</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be fraudulent not to list a parent? Reread the application instructions and the honor code statement at the end of the application.</p>
<p>By not listing him, you’re pretty much committing fraud and it’s likely the school will take back any offer of admission (or kick you out if you attend) if they find out. The worst that could happen is they don’t give you a legacy advantage, but it’s likely they won’t even know about the arrest. From the sounds of it they will only look up your legacy in terms of financial contributions to the school. They probably won’t google him and they won’t hold anything negative they find against you.</p>
<p>They will verify by looking at their own records that he did graduate from that school, but they don’t have time to be googling the parents! They would never get through evaluating 30,000 applications if they stopped to google the whole family.</p>