gibby
March 24, 2017, 7:15pm
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/education/edlife/the-other-legacies-fac-brats.html
In fact, children of faculty and staff get an edge at most institutions, even the most selective.
At Yale, a connection also counts. “Affiliation with Yale is among many factors, such as geographic location and race, that may be considered in the application process,” says a spokesman, Thomas Conroy, who declines to provide the number of students who are faculty and staff offspring.
Based on the above NY Times article, I would think Yale would consider you a legacy applicant. That said, being a legacy is a mixed blessing – yes, you have a leg up in the process, but legacies are often held to a HIGHER standard: https://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/legacy-2/comment-page-4/
“We turn away 80 percent of our legacies, and we feel it every day,” Mr. Brenzel said, adding that he rejected more offspring of the school’s Sterling donors than he accepted this year (Sterling donors are among the most generous contributors to Yale). He argued that legacies scored 20 points higher on the SAT than the rest of the class as a whole.
Mr. Brenzel made the case that low-income students represented an increasing size of Yale’s undergraduate class, even though they had less of a track record of success at the university. About 14 percent of the incoming class is supported by Pell Grant students, he said, saying that with respect to preferences, “the trend is down for legacy and up for underrepresented minorities.”