<p>I know for some schools it's a huge leg up, but then I've heard for other schools such as Stanford, it's not nearly as big a deal. My dad graduated from NU- will this influence my application at all? I'm just getting more and more worried as the notification date gets closer!</p>
<p>I was a double secondary legacy (Two grandparents) and got in. I don’t know if it helped much. I would say that it would help you some, but it wouldn’t be a major thing. At this point, your application has probably been decided. Scary thought, but its over. Just wait for decisions and see what happens.</p>
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<p>It puts alumnus relation as “considered”. It surely won’t hurt you, but in essence you’d need more than the legacy status to get you through.</p>
<p>All the best.</p>
<p>At Northwestern, I strongly believe (and have advised fellow alums so) that if you’re going to play your legacy card, play it in ED or don’t bother. Still and all, remember that the majority of legacies are still denied. </p>
<p>(Politedancesong- I am an alum, married to an alum, and my S is a student at NU, accepted early decision. Anecdotally, I know about 6 other fellow alums who have had kids accepted to NU. All went to NU except for one who turned it down for West Point. None are / were big donors to the best of my knowledge; I surely am not.)</p>
<p>^^ I agree. Legacy status usually matters less (if at all) RD than it does ED.</p>
<p>Ah yes, I should have remembered that. I’ve heard tons of people mention it mostly counts in ED. Tough luck, but all it can do is help.</p>
<p>I look at legacy at NU like this: If all other stats,ECs, etc are equal, then the legacy wins. But it’s not gonna jump you over somebody with better stats. Unless your close family donated a dorm or new athletic center…</p>
<p>I read on some press release issued by NU that legacy students get accepted at nearly twice the rate of non-legacies. Forgot where I read that, but it was published about the NU class of 2015 or 2016.</p>
<p>^^Did the press release distinguish between ED and RD?</p>
<p>When mentioning legacy admissions it only brought up overall admissions rates, not individual ED and RD rates.</p>
<p>Just found out I got waitlisted. Thought my stats were pretty decent (2310 SAT, 4.0 UW, 4.9 weighted) so I guess legacy status didn’t help much 
Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>I got admitted and I feel like it might be somewhat because of my legacy connections.</p>
<p>Don’t think that way. You earned it. Congrats!</p>
<p>Thatrynnerkid - I think I’m the one who posted it. It was in a letter sent to alums right after the class of 2015 got in. It noted that the overall acceptance rate was 18% and the alumni acceptance rate was, I want to say 33% but I might be off a bit. Regardless, that’s still the majority of alum acceptances denied, so it’s no magic bullet.</p>
<p>I suspect the legacy acceptance rates are going to go down, as more legacies apply.</p>
<p>If you want legacy to help, apply ED.</p>
<p>Ignore serghes. Looking through his posts he enjoys belitting URM, Legacy, females in engineering, and any other hooks, saying those people are undeserving. If NU didn’t think you would succeed, they wouldn’t accept you. Therefore you earned it. Legacy in RD probably didn’t affect anything anyway. He probably just got rejected from NU and wants to pretend he was stolen from.</p>