<p>I have a lot of family history at U-M. My father, uncle, brother, and step sister have attended, and we have ancestors in the 19th-century that attended as well. I know legacy can be helpful when applying, but the only people I've been able to mention are my brother and my dad. Any suggestions as to how I can mention the other family members?</p>
<p>I think there is only one question regarding that in the supplement. And the answer is just yes or no. It does have another question asking whether you have any siblings applying to UMich this year though.</p>
<p>hold your horses little man, legacies do not make that much of a difference.</p>
<p>I realize that. It doesn’t hurt to add it, though. Everyone in my family has graduated from LS&A (where I’m applying to), so I’m mentioning it in the essay portion regarding my school of choice.</p>
<p>Isn’t Michigan on the Common App this year? (correct me if I am wrong, but I thought they made that move). In that case, list them in the additional information section. I do agree this is not a big factor in admission. My D1 would have been fourth generation, with both parents, 2 grandparents, a great grandparent, and an aunt & uncle as Michigan grads. Her stats were a little low and she was “courtesy waitlisted”. No biggie, she thrived at the college she attended, and wasn’t that invested in going to Michigan. Fortunately. 
But don’t count on it as much of a boost, if any.</p>
<p>They are indeed! What does “courtesy waitlisted” mean?</p>
<p>Ah, it means they put her on the waitlist to make her alumni family members feel better about the fact they were really rejecting her. Obviously they don’t come right out and tell you that, but it is commonly done with kids of alumni at top colleges that they don’t want to admit.</p>
<p>“Courtesy waitlist” = you have a couple of months to send us a $20,000 donation</p>
<p>intparent, where did your daughter end up going? Did any of the family alums try to “make a phone call”? Seems like that happens all the time, just have to lean on the right person</p>
<p>@ryanc00per You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how admissions at Michigan works.</p>
<p>Yes, quid pro quo NEVER happens at Michigan. Ha!</p>
<p>quid pro quo does happen, not for a paltry 20 grand though. Try a lot more.</p>
<p>Undergraduate admissions has no visibility of alumni donating that kind of amounts. You need to add at least 2 to 3 zeros to get on the prospect list.</p>
<p>bearcat, maybe a lot more to someone that has zero affiliation to the University, but she said they’re a Michigan family and the kid was wait listed (i.e., not some random loser with a 3.0 GPA and 25 ACT). It could have been as simple and free as grandpa making a phone call to the right person. Or a $2,500 political donation to an alum with some juice. This probably happens hundreds of times every year.</p>
<p>It’s not a much smaller, more elite, more selective Ivy class where it costs $1M+ to get a kid in. If you’re spending six figures to get your kid into a public school that is breaking enrollment records you’re an idiot.</p>
<p>LOL @ 7 or 8 figures to get a kid into Michigan. Stop it.</p>
<p>I personally know a half dozen kids who were wait listed and their family had to work the channels and got them in. No money changed hands. If you’re a moderate donor and a professional in Michigan, you know the right people to contact to make things happen. Every major city in the state is full of Michigan alums with some juice.</p>
<p>$2.5M for Harvard. Nobody is paying seven or even six figures to get into Michigan. They’d just send their kid to George Washington U, where they’d be around thousands of other slacker rich kids. Or Michigan State, where they’d fit in better with Oakland County rich kid slackers.</p>
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<p>Rryanc00per, my D attended Dickinson. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and got a great job after graduation, it worked out perfectly for her. No, no one tried to call admissions at Michigan, we really didn’t think it would do any good. And honestly she was not heartbroken at the waitlist, she probably would have picked an LAC instead in the end anyway. My D2, who I believe would have easily been admitted at Michigan, didn’t even want to apply. So our streak ends at 3 generations. :)</p>
<p>I’m guessing Stephen Ross’s kids or grandkids get an automatic admit these days, but we are not in that league!</p>
<p>ryan, you sound kind of bitter. And a bit out of touch with reality.</p>
<p>100k with the right stats won’t even get you in my high school.</p>
<p>Think about it this way, a full paying out of stater pays 200k over the course of his undergraduate studies, if it only cost 20k to get in, everyone mildly within the average stats would do it. That’s an insignificant marginal cost.</p>
<p>Apples to oranges, straw-man arguments are neat.</p>
<p>in-state, University of Michigan legacy family != out-of-state, unaffiliated family</p>
<p>If your Grandpa, Dad and uncles are all U of M alums, they’re all professionals, they’re long-time donors and they’re able to get in touch with the right people in Metro Detroit, Grand Rapids or Ann Arbor to get you in (assuming you’re moderately qualified). Why is this even a discussion? It happens regularly at every decent university in the nation.</p>
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<p>Grandpa…</p>