<p>Does double legacy even help?</p>
<p>yes actually</p>
<p>double legacy helps only if your sat, sat ii, ec’s, and recs are also ballin’</p>
<p>jelecrois doesn’t know what he/she is talking about.</p>
<p>1) is it both parents went to cc/seas, legacy does not include barnard college.
2) do they donate or are they active in alumni volunteering?
3) did you apply ed?</p>
<p>a double legacy that applies early, and is within a standard deviation or so of columbia’s mean for things will certainly get a bump, whose parents are at all involved will see their chances rise, but the thing is because columbia only so recently became coed and there are so few double legacies, you’d be rare so there are so few cases to compare you to.</p>
<p>I’m sorry admissionsgeek. I was just going from what I learned from other forms: if you are a legacy, you do indeed have an advantage, but that doesn’t mean you can get in without being a strong student. geez ): i was just trying to help.</p>
<p>you can be wrong when you try to help. so i was just clarifying based on the fact that i do know what’s up.</p>
<p>Even one parent who went there will be a big help and they do not necessarily have to give a lot of money or even be active in columbia’s alumni association. Just being a legacy helps.</p>
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<p>no this is completely off, I don’t know if this is even true for other colleges, but it certainly isn’t true for columbia. Columbia has one of the lowest (I think the lowest) % of legacies in the ivy league, we were told explicitly by admissions deans that Columbia doesn’t care much for standard legacies, “but if the student has visited campus many times, been to football games since they were a kid, and has columbia paraphernalia all over their house, because their parent went here” then we will consider that significantly.</p>
<p>General rule: if your parents have donated a little, it will count the same as general alumni involvement and be considered positively, but might not change your outcome significantly.</p>
<p>If your parents are huge donors and have rooms or libraries named after them, then you and anyone you really want can probably get in - this is true of any top university and just makes good utilitarian sense - keep the donor happy –> get facilities which benefit the hundreds of other students who made it on merit.</p>
<p>It is a small boost, though small boosts can be significant regarding a rejection/acceptance.</p>