<p>If your parent is a professor at a highly selective University (e.g. Columbia, Princeton, Harvard), are you automatically accepted?</p>
<p>What about if your sibling attends that University?</p>
<p>What if BOTH are true?</p>
<p>Even if you don't have the grades or the SATs?</p>
<p>Just wondering how much of an advantage these lucky few have...</p>
<p>No. But some (or maybe all) have a tuition exchange benefit that gives an employee's children 1/2 tuition at any college, up to a certain amount of money. My sister's ex-husband -- father of their twins -- is a professor at Yale Med school. No way their kids will get in without the same scores as everyone else. I also know someone who works at Princeton. She will get a similar tuition benefit for her kids, but not until she has been working there full-time for 5 years. I think Rutgers has the same deal.</p>
<p>I haven't heard of automatic acceptances like that, though many places have special tuition programs. If your dad teaches at a uni, you won't get in without any application, but you'll probably pay drastically-decreased tuition.</p>
<p>It also might help you, but won't give you automatic admission.</p>
<p>First of all, even at the most legacy happy school, having a sibling at the school will not be anything more than a very minor push factor in your favor. Although I am sure anyone looking at my posts these last few days is bored of having me say it, after being flat-out rejected with strong stats and a double legacy RD at Princeton this year, I no longer believe that the legacy effect is anything like what many claim, at least for RD. </p>
<p>However, being a faculty child can have benefits, although I do not believe it is a push at schools as selective as HYP. One of the few people admitted to Northwestern from my HS this year is a faculty child. She applied ED, and is a good but marginal for Northwestern candidate--ranked within the top 10% but not the top 5%, with a couple of C's and probably a low 30's ACT. Many stronger applicants were waitlisted this year RD. So, at a slightly less selective school, especially if you apply ED, it might help you in while you would have had a tough time otherwise. But I would reiterate that this girl is no slouch or unqualified to do the work at Northwestern, even though I do not believe that she would be admitted if she were not a faculty child.</p>