Grandparents = legacy?

Applying to College
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<p>Do grandparents count towards legacy at all, or is it only parents?</p>

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<p>Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Depends on the policies of the individual schools.</p>

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<p>Do you happen to know the policies at Northwestern? I couldn’t find anything</p>

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<p>ask in the northwestern section</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northwestern-university/[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northwestern-university/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The easiest way to tell is by looking at their application. You could tell by who they ask you to list as someone who has gone to their school</p>

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<p>^exactly. </p>

<p>On the app it will either say to list parents or grandparents who attended XXX University or it will ask only for your parents. For USC it asked for both grandparents and parents so obviously both count. Columbia on the other hand gives you the option of either a parent or “other”. (I applied to both schools that’s the only reason I know)</p>

<p>Hope that helps :)</p>

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<p>hopefully relatives count (crosses fingers)
my grandfather was a famous mathematics professor at yale, and my dad’s half sister went to yale…but my parents didn’t</p>

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<p>This is such a misunderstood topic. So let’s use Yale as an example. In less than 60 seconds on the Yale web site I was able to find this:</p>

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<p>So for Yale it’s just parents but they do include those who attended grad schools which many schools do not. Dartmouth is also parents, but only parents who attended undergrad. This can be found using the search function on these school’s web sites.</p>

<p>Many want to know if a prof in the family or another connection will help. The answer is probably not unless they gave the school a lot of money or have amazing connections to this day at the school. Your file must be tagged. Literally, a special sticker is put on it. This will come with being the child of a grad, a call from the Development people or someone high up who takes a personal interest. The application is then read in a different way by different people.</p>

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<p>my grandparents went to Harvard and Stanford so on my application can i say i am a legacy? Also can i reapply to school i applied to early decision, but did not get accepted?</p>

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<p>Please don’t resurrect old threads. People will start applying to the original poster. Use the new discussion button to start your own question. </p>