<p>I'm a double legacy (both parents) at Wharton, my top school choice. I'm applying ED but I'm out of state. How much does the legacy part help?</p>
<p>More legacies are rejected than accepted. If you have everything else to be competitive, the legacy status may help slightly, but, unless your parents have donated a buillding, don’t count on it to get you in.</p>
<p>Legacies do get a slight advantage during the ED round (and none during the RD round). But, as Wordworker points out, that assumes that you are otherwise a competitive applicant, and more legacies are rejected than accepted. All else being equal, however, it will give you a slight boost if you apply ED.</p>
<p>In terms of being out of state, that’s irrelevant. Philadelphia residents do enjoy a bit of an advantage in the admissions process, but remember that geographic diversity is also very important to Penn (and other top schools). Only 16% of the Class of 2016 is from the entire state of Pennsylvania.</p>