How important is legacy status?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>Quote from a disillusioned 2009 ED applicant</p>

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"Yea congrats and all that good stuff, but I have no respect for princeton anymore. They can't THIS shamelessly take legacies. That goes for all of them...I haven't seen a legacy/family connection kid deferred yet. And all along, I thought the stereotypes weren't true..sigh"

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<p>i heard a lot of rumors about this too, that P'ton takes legacies way too easily. they only defer the kids who are CLEARLY unqualified, like 1000SATI score or something.</p>

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<p>they do take legacies way too easily...my interviewer even told me this. he told me that to get into princeton you need a hook. i responded with, "oh like, being a legacy?" he told me no, legacies are in a whole other bracket because they are the potential money donators. he went on to say that legacies at princeton are golden and it's just a big legacy school. he told me it was unfair but thats just the way the system is.</p>

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<p>I still don't know what a good hook is anyway.
What's a good example of one?</p>

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<p>International Math Olympiad
International _______ olympiad, for that matter.</p>

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<p>hahaha international pshaw.
is a national title enough for a hook?</p>

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<p>yup. unless its national rock-paper-scissors competition (the international competition was held in Canada, i believe)</p>

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<p>yay i have a hook.
i feel special.
now i have a slim chance of getting in
so that my kids can also get in
and they won't have to go through all this</p>

<p>but then if i don't
they won't get in also
AND IT'S THE CIRCLE OF LIFE AND NO ONE WILL EVER GET IN BECAUSE OF THE LEGACY RULE AHHH</p>

<p>haha jk it's late and i'm crazy</p>

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<p>is it that hosa thing?</p>

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<p>yes, my one and only claim to fame.</p>

<p>haha not really...</p>

<p>....well pretty much, i guess.</p>

<p>I was second in the nation two years ago, and first in the nation last year, so that's double good right? lol I'm trying to give myself hope here....</p>

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<p>but how competitive is HOSA really? how come ive never heard of it? i mean, how many ppl would really want to compete in something so specifically geared toward premed/med, except future doctor-wannabe ppl?</p>

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<p>Wellll ... one of my high school friends was a legacy, the salutatorian, high test scorer, and very involved in ecs. He got deferred and then rejected. So really, I think the legacy factor might be overrated.</p>

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<p>hmm....their statistic show that they accept around 30% of the applicants who are legacies. Definitely better than the 12%....</p>

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<p>Better, but thirty percent is hardly a shoo-in. And legacies would tend to come from intelligent families with supportive parents, at least a greater percentage than the general body of applicants.</p>

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<p>I agree with pastariffic</p>

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<p>Yeah, isn't there some statistic that says that avg SAT scores for legacies are actually higher than the everyone else's? Or maybe I'm just making it up, who knows??</p>

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<p>no i think its 40% of legacies are admitted</p>

<p>for the class of 2010, 200 out of 519 legacy kids were admitted</p>

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but how competitive is HOSA really? how come ive never heard of it? i mean, how many ppl would really want to compete in something so specifically geared toward premed/med, except future doctor-wannabe ppl?

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<p>80,000 kids in the nation
competitive enough?</p>

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<p>but isn't HOSA comprised of many different individual competitions?
is there really 1 person who is considered the overall "champion?"</p>

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<p>haha yeah of course.
There are about 30 or so categories</p>

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<p>Btlesgirl, where did you hear that?</p>