<p>Good luck to everyone applying ED. Hoping that while you’re waiting you can answer a quick question for me. Where on your application do you indicate if you’re a legacy? I know there’s the question about who/what influenced you to want to attend Brown, but my son wrote about something other than his grandfather, and now we’re wondering where he can tell them that his grandfather is a Brown graduate (ok - maybe my son’s not a direct legacy, but I wasn’t able to attend Brown - so this is as close as it gets for him).<br>
He’s all ready to submit for RD - just this one last thing to figure out. </p>
<p>Thanks for the help and good luck to all!</p>
<p>Other than indicating where your parents received their degrees and where your siblings go to college, there is no other place on the application to indicate legacy. I’m not sure grandparent “counts.” If you want to include that, your son may want to consider adding that fact to his short answer.</p>
<p>or you can put it in the additional information section of the common app but it might sound random</p>
<p>bump</p>
<p>okay, so I’m less direct - my paternal great-grandfathers both were graduates and one of them donated a dormitory and has a plaque dedicated to him on campus - but my mom would probably kill me if I didn’t add it in.</p>
<p>As it is, it seems like mentioning family ties in the “what influenced you to apply” essay is kind of out of place. What do you think I should do?</p>
<p>If they didn’t ask, then maybe it won’t matter. </p>
<p>If you’re determined to include that information, stick it in ‘Additional Information’ or find a way to mention it in the “who influenced you” answer.</p>
<p>It may count for something (I know grandparents do) and this question used to be on the Brown application (maybe it got cut in the move to common app?).</p>
<p>I’d put it in Why Brown? Who told you about Brown? or Additional information.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice!
I’ll try and fit it in, but I guess it won’t be awful if I can’t</p>
<p>mapleleaf, in your case (if your great-grandparent really gave enough money to pay for a dorm) – you may want to call Alumni Relations and talk to someone there. Alumni Relations provides info to admissions on legacy applicants. </p>
<p>Although, quite frankly, if no one in your family has gone to Brown in two generations and we’re talking about money donated 50+ years ago with nothing since, I doubt it will do much to boost your chance of admission. (If your family wants to pay for another dormitory now, though, that would probably help you tremendously.)</p>