<p>Hello everyone. I'm somewhat familiar with the legacy concept, but don't know where to draw the line when it comes to what relation the family member has to have with you. I have read around and mostly seen that only parents, silbings, and grandparents have a lot of influence on this process. However, my uncle who I am close with graduated from Stanford and is now a billionaire. I'm not sure whether he has donated back to the school, but would this increase my chances, despite him not being a parent/sibling/grandparent? Thanks in advance for your input.</p>
<p>See if you can find out whether he has donated to the school. On the app, they have specific boxes to fill in what kind of legacy(Parents, grandparents, etc.). I think there is a spot for Uncles/Aunts on there. Know that it will probably not increase your chances significantly unless he has donated upwards of a million dollars to the school.</p>
<p>That makes sense, thanks. Also, does anyone know if they look up the family members/legacies online? Or really, what the process is behind how they look at a legacy. </p>
<p>Also I don’t plan on relying on a legacy or see it as something I am really counting on to get me through. It might come off like that, but I’ve never really given my uncle’s situation with Stanford much thought, and am now asking you guys. Thanks.</p>
<p>Liar. What’s his name?</p>
<p>If they’re related and donate then they can serve as a huge plus on the app. I know people going to SMU who were admitted because their grandparents or uncles are big donors.</p>
<p>This seems unlikely, but here’s the general answer: you can get an admissions advantage as a “development case” if the college believes that accepting you will make it more likely that somebody is likely to donate large sums of money as a result. Ask yourself this: how will you convince the college that admitting you will cause your uncle to donate? I suspect that the answer is that he has to be willing to tell them that he will.</p>
<p>muaythaiguy18, I have no reason to lie, why would I waste my time to make this thread? Sorry but I am not giving names.</p>
<p>Thanks for your responses. Ya I agree, it would see likely that they would need some sort of donation or assurance that there will be a donation to consider the legacy benefit. I have no clue whether my uncle has donated or not, I guess I’ll ask.</p>
<p>If you and he were that close then he would fill you in-about his Stanford donations. But more importantly, he would tell Stanford about you. It doesn’t sound like your that close.</p>
<p>Because he isn’t real. I’m going to look through the Stanford alumni Wikipedia page now</p>
<p>Have fun doing that muaythaiguy</p>
<p>Trust me, we are close, like most Persian families (there you go muaythai, that’s about as much personal info as I’m gonna give, enjoy narrowing the alumnis down). But despite this, I wouldn’t expect him to tell me about all of his financial decisions and such, so I disagree with you about having to know how my uncle spends his money in order to be close to him.</p>
<p>Also, what do you mean by he would tell Stanford about me? Does that mean I should ask him to write a rec letter or something for my resume? I’ve heard that doing this wouldn’t get me anywhere, because of course your family member is just going to write about how good you are. Or am I wrong?</p>
<p>GKK: A big donor can open a huge door. Stanford is actually one of the few schools that admit a preference to legacy/endowment students.</p>
<p>If your uncle hasn’t already, get him to donate a couple million to the school…</p>
<p>muaythaiguy18 can’t be more jealous.
Thai guy can never go to Stanford because he doesn’t have a rich uncle lol</p>
<p>Yangliu, that’s not true. You guys are a little too gullible to be honest. </p>
<p>So who is his uncle? Is it Jerry Yang, the founder of Yahoo? Or is it Larry Page or Sergey Brin, the founders of Google? Or maybe the founder of Nike… Incredibly doubtful.</p>
<p>If I told you right now that I am Donald Trump’s son, would you just believe me?</p>
<p>Omg muaythai, I really don’t understand what makes you so skeptical haha; it’s funny. Do you really think I’m going to give personal info out on an online forum? And why the heck would I make up that my uncle is a billionaire? For the sake of making a fake post in order to make myself look good? I guess some people are into that, but I’m not here to waste my time. Just to make you happy, my uncle is the business founder of Google, and Iranian, figure the rest out from there, I’m not giving personal info. Now please stop your nonsense.</p>
<p>sosomenza, wow I was unaware of that, thanks. I guess I should ask him if he has donated. I think he probably will to increase the chances of his own kids (my cousins) getting in, I’ll talk with him. Thanks for the input.</p>
<p>If he has donated a lot I think you have a really good chance. You would be a high-profile development case.</p>
<p>Ok thanks for the input muay. Wow, this legacy system is so corrupt haha. I didn’t even know it could make such a difference. I mean I still have a pretty good resume/grades and all that, maybe ill make a post with that stuff next.</p>
<p>I found your uncle…very cool guy. You might want to remove your last post about him, though, if you want to maintain your anonymity. Good luck with college!</p>
<p>Goku, I don’t criticize admissions for doing it. If Stanford can provide its students with better academic resources, the benefit of accepting one ‘development case’ student outweighs the cost. I think that it is a little unjust to the person without the rich uncle who loses a spot and has perhaps worked harder (though you may have gotten in without him), but that is life.</p>
<p>I applied as a soph transfer to Stanford.</p>