How heavy is legacy status weighted?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>here are my UCB family ties:
Dad, Grandpa, Grandma, and Aunt all went there.
Grandpa is on the Alumni Board of Scholarships and is the President of one of the Dorm/Halls.
Grandpa and Family have been active with cal events for the past 30 years.</p>

<p>I would be third generation.</p>

<p>Enough to get me in!>?? I posted in the chances forum with stats. i can post them here too.</p>

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<p>Sorry, but Berkeley doesnt look at legacies. :(</p>

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<p>Badkunmaster6d is right, as far as I know- that's the official policy (or so I've heard). Anyone have official university web pages stating it?</p>

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<p>I don't have the link, but I read an article, perhaps in the Daily Cal, that quoted a member of the admissions committee as saying that they stopped considering legacy status in 2000.</p>

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<p>Legacy is not a consideration in the admissions process. This is actually rather rare, even for a public university.</p>

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<p>Oh, well. Don't stress, stressaholic. Seeing as you've had so many highly educated family members, you'll probably smart, and you probably have high potential. Fear not.</p>

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<p>They don't care about legacy. They don't even require teacher recommendations (they did many years ago). They are very statiscally oriented (grades, test scores, etc) though ec's and essays count a lot.</p>

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<p>berkeley is a meritocracy they don't care what family you were born to, that doesn't demonstrate anything about you, maybe other colleges should take a page out of berk's book</p>

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<p>well crap then. I was hoping that would help pull me in a little. I mean could it help at all?</p>

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<p>Nope. And it costs them some alumni contributions.</p>

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<p>Yes, you were born to a privelaged, educated family. That's a big help.</p>

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<p>Not really complaining about the education, although the family was educated, if not privileged before Cal. Still, it cost them some alumni contributions. That wouldn't matter as much if Californian hadn't started screwing UC and everything else in 1978.</p>

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<p>I agree with you, about the alumin contributions. What happened in 1978?</p>

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<p>Sorry If I edited after your post.</p>

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<p>Proposition 13 and a general reduction in support for higher educatation, schools, transportation, other infrastructure and a lot of things that were wonderful about California before then.</p>

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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978%5B/url%5D)"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Learned something new there. See "recent events."</p>