<p>Let's say a parent was admitted, and attended Cornell, but eventually transferred out, and got a degree elsewhere </p>
<p>Would you still list that, and would it help you?</p>
<p>Legacy = alumni.</p>
<p>No degree, no you.</p>
<p>Okay, that is what I thought</p>
<p>Thanks guys!</p>
<p>Cornell supplement:
The answer is you are a legacy. Every school’s definition of legacy is different. Some only include parents, some include extended families. The best way to find out is to read each school’s supplement.</p>
<p>@oldfort that’s the reason I was asking, after seeing that </p>
<p>But I assume that attended means graduated from</p>
<p>Personally, I’d be a little hesitant and, at least, check out from admission what Cornell means by “legacy” before I checked that box. It could be implied that “attended” in regard to legacy means graduated from.</p>
<p>You will have to put in graduation year/dates attended and if it is a parent you are talking about, Cornell will know the college they actually did graduate from - it’s somewhere on the application. </p>
<p>This article should clear up Cornell’s definition of “legacy.”</p>
<p><a href=“http://cornellsun.com/blog/2013/10/15/legacies-make-up-15-percent-of-cornell-students/[/url]”>http://cornellsun.com/blog/2013/10/15/legacies-make-up-15-percent-of-cornell-students/</a></p>
<p>Legacy counts quite a bit at Cornell, especially during the ED round. There is legacy and there is legacy. If your parent didn’t graduate from Cornell and have not been very active then your legacy probably is not going to count as much. I think OP can check off the legacy box, but he/she would need to indicate that the parent didn’t graduate from Cornell. </p>
<p>From what I have seen over the years, even though sibling does not count as legacy, Cornell seem to look favorable at it. No real stats, but just have seen a lot of siblings at Cornell.</p>
<p>My advice would be to check with admissions. I think it could actually hurt an applicant to check “legacy” if the parent did not graduate from Cornell. I would hate so see the OP’s application be negatively affected.</p>
<p>I see the word “attended.” I disagree with the other posters on this board. I think attended means exactly that: attended. You parent was accepted, enrolled, and attended. If Cornell wanted to know if a degree was earned, they can ask.</p>
<p>Ask the school. Personally, I think it means alumni.</p>
<p>This part of the Cornell Daily Sun article posted above would give me pause to count legacy as anyone who “attended” but did not receive a degree. </p>
<p>"Jason Locke, interim associate vice provost for enrollment, said that Cornell admissions defines a legacy candidate as ‘a student whose parents or grandparents — or great-, or great-great, etc. — hold a degree from Cornell University.’”</p>
<p>Cornell actually does ask where parents attended and graduated from college - at least my D had to put it on her common app.</p>
<p>Yes, common app does ask if your parents went to college and where they graduated from. On the other hand, Cornell’s supplement asks if your parents/grandparents…attended Cornell. Alum also means attended OR graduated from a school. I don’t think it would hurt to ask admissions directly to get clarification. </p>
<p>If parent attended and not graduated can be recognized as a legacy and if the parent left Cornell due to an unforeseen circumstance (family hardship, health issue), OP could write a compelling essay about it to strength his/her tie to Cornell.</p>
<p>If it helps to clear things up, the parent transfered for the normal reasons - didn’t like the environment, classes, etc.</p>
<p>But I’ll end up asking admissions when it gets closer to my app time</p>