If one of my parents works at a university I'm applying to, do I have a better chance? (Princeton)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My mom works at Princeton as a research specialist and as of now I didn't really intend to apply (prospective business major). Should I rethink this and submit an application or is it a waste of my time?</p>

<p>For some context (see my past threads for fuller stats):</p>

<p>-SAT superscored 2150; Reasoning 1390
-Bio M 790; Math II 770; US History 720
-GPA: 102.8 Weighted
-President of a community service club
-VP of NHS, on boards of cultural club and language honor society
-Student rep for a domestic violence organization for their annual awareness walk (helped raise $3200)
-Getting a rec from Rotary club liason, latin teacher w/ Princeton PhD, math teacher from cornell</p>

<p>What do you think? I know I'm definitely not apart of the typical pool of applicants Princeton gets, will my mom's job help at all?</p>

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<p>bump</p>

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<p>I was actually researching this earlier myself. Your chances of admission are actually boosted by about 33% because your mom works for the school at a private institution. You don’t have an awesome chance, but why not go for it anyways? who knows? sometimes, the most unexpected people get in. go for it!
please respond to my chance question please thanks :)</p>

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<p>Ask your mother?</p>

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<p>My mom is also a research specialist, but at a different Ivy. Unless your mom is a faculty member (and not considered staff like mine), her employment has no effects on your application. It won’t help you get in, but it should help with the finances, although Princeton already guarantees to meet all students’ needs. If I get into the college my mom works at, I get 75% off tuition. That’s probably the only benefit you would get as well.</p>

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<p>Nah, I don’t think it matters if she is faculty or not. Do the Princeton app and see if they check what she does.</p>

<p>I would think they would get a lot of flack if they gave preference to certain employees’ kids and not others.</p>

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<p>No, it definitely matters. Faculty teaches or lectures at the actual school (and their kids get 100% off tuition), staff do other stuff unrelated to the curriculum. But then again my mom’s at a different school where they might do it differently than Princeton. But seriously, ask your mom about this; she should know or at least who to ask.</p>

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<p>I talked to my mom about it before. She says she knows some of her coworkers’ kids have gotten in, but they were also really smart so idk how much their parents’ job factored into admissions. And yeah, Princeton gave ~15,000 in tuition to children of employees last year, regardless of which college they attend (under certain conditions of course). Thanks for the input so far, I’ll ask my mom if she’s staff or faculty. </p>