<p>Is it possible to hate/severely dislike someone over the internet?</p>
<p>this was not supposed to be a troll thread.....</p>
<p>If this was not supposed to be a troll thread, I would highly suggest you pursue an academic consultation to help you find a school that will suit your learning style. You say you are English and American (which, one cannot be; the US and UK do not have a dual agreement; one must relinquish one citizenship in favour of another barring a few rare circumstances). So, if your mother is American and your father is British, you will have to relinquish one passport.
Also, as expanded upon ad nauseam, Oxford DOES NOT REGARD LEGACY STATUS. Furthermore, Oxford does not take "URM" status into account during the admissions process either. Finally, at US colleges and universities, the benefit of legacy admission varies greatly. While at some schools it's just a box to check, at other top tier schools being a legacy entitles a student to meet privately with AOs, etc. This information seems kind of irrelevant because, a. NO ONE gets the benefit of legacy stat at Oxford or Cambridge, b. if you apply from the UK your race will not be an admissions factor at either Oxford or any American institution, and c., if you do apply from the US, no moderately selective institution will accept an individual who can barely manage basic grammar.</p>
<p>"Legacy to Oxford help in American Ivies as well as in Oxford. </p>
<p>Oxford '33 Oxford '92, grandfather and father.</p>
<p>Logically it makes sense that someone who comes from a line of well educated ancestors should be more attractive than not."</p>
<p>ditto what most people said, but i'd like to add that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, revolution. ;)</p>
<p>You never know what may appeal to an admissions officer. But when you look deep into this whole "Is it a hook?" debate, some interesting phenomena show up.</p>
<p>Say you're a straight A student with myriad ECs. Not impressive. For an Oxford legacy, that's highly predictable. You have succeeded "because" of your background, at least that's what most adcoms would expect.</p>
<p>What if you're a straight A student with myriad ECs but are a first generation student? Very impressive. You haven't let your background dent your ambitions and have succeeded "despite" it. </p>
<p>The latter is any day more appealing, at least to me.</p>
<p>i think the fact that you've had family at the school is going to work positively for you, but there's elsewhere space on your application to put that. </p>
<p>it's also possible to write your essay about that or something, but it's really not a good start at all, because it doesn't make too much sense sorry</p>