<p>My sister just got into a school, in which she had .12 lower gpa than the average and was accepted. Is our Dad being a professor there the reason?</p>
<p>Edit (for details): Hmmm for further elaboration... this school is pretty strong (top 20 I think?) and is very big on research (which my Dad does) if that shapes your answer at all :P. Also he's tenured</p>
<p>It can be huge. It depends on the college. But 0.12 lower than the average is not some monstrous scraping of the barrel bottom, either.</p>
<p>I agree with T26E4 0.12 is not that much from the average and yes your Dad being a Professor will help on getting into college probability it will depend on where he is and his info.</p>
<p>Hmmm for further elaboration… this school is pretty strong (top 20 I think?) and is very big on research (which my Dad does) if that shapes your answer at all :P. Also he’s tenured</p>
<p>Schools like usually will give special consideration to faculty kids. You lucked out!</p>
<p>@T26E4 Haha thank you for your wise wisdom of 6 years of CC :P. My sister lucked out! I’m still not sure if I want to go to that school… waiting for other application decisions :o!</p>
<p>You need to disclose her full stats. But I’m more interested in why you would post such a query?</p>
<p>A faculty member at one of the Ivies told me one of his tenured colleagues was disappointed that his child was not admitted in the current ED cycle. The faculty member was both faculty and alum.</p>
<p>Considering that some of these colleges have policies in place to cover big percentages of the kids tuitions at other institutions, it would make sense to admit them but there are still no guarantees at top schools.</p>
<p>.12 is nothing. That is the difference between an A and a B in 1 class at most high schools. That’s not to say that the faculty connection didn’t help. But I doubt it was little more than a slight tip in her favor. Remember, a college’s “average” GPA means that by definition, half the students had lower GPAs. Your sister didn’t “luck out”. She was clearly a stong applicant to the school who may have been helped slightly by the faculty connection but may very well have gotten into the school even without it.</p>
<p>Faculty children aren’t huge “lobby groups” like other hooked applicants. Most universities have no more than a few hundred professors, but thousands and thousands of alumni. So it’s harder to explain and predict than legacies. Still, the college can take a few shortcuts. It knows the applicant has grown up in an environment consistent with the school’s academic environment, and it knows the applicant really loves the school, because they’ve heard all about it, good and bad, their entire life. These things certainly don’t hurt.</p>
<p>@sosmenza Sorry don’t want to disclose all her stats. Just curiosity, people always talking about hooks here</p>
<p>@texaspg Dang tuition benefits would be nice, we don’t get that!</p>
<p>@mmmgirl .12 is a considerable difference, coming from the highschool that we attended. I really have no idea if it helped or not, not sure what happens in the admissions committee :P. However on the point that faculty children aren’t huge “lobby groups”, I think that is what makes them so incredibly strong, stronger than a legacy.All in speculation of course</p>
<p>Couldn’t you just ask your father whether or not it would help? It seems like he would be the best resource since he could probably find this out. I have no idea if he could, but I’m just speculating.</p>
<p>There’s no need to ask. Faculty children preferences are not new to the scene. When the dad’s name was read on the sister’s app, it immediately got special attention – whether to reject or not – it would have been read over by several higher authorities. Frankly, child preferences are highly touted when trying to recruit professors, in some circumstances.</p>