<p>im curious how much would being a legacy help getting in?</p>
<p>i know of someone whose both parents went to Brown, but they did not get in.</p>
<p>I, too, know several applicants who were legacies and highly qualified (top ranked, high SATs, great ECs) who were not accepted. The legacy acceptance rate has been like 34-38 percent in the last two years -- which is significantly higher than the regular acceptance rate, but still means that more than 60 percent of legacy applicants were not accepted. Being legacy will NOT get you in if your grades, ECs or SATs are not great (although being legacy and a major donor might).</p>
<p>lol i'm glad to see that factors beyond your control (like who your parents are) do not completely determine your fate & that there is still some fairness in admissions</p>
<p>As long as any legacies are getting an edge in admission, there is a want of fairness.</p>
<p>the edge legacies get is substantially smaller once you control for the influence of parental education more generally (all children of ivy-educated parents are likely to be more high-achieving), family income, student performance measures, and other standard determinants of admission</p>
<p>Smaller, perhaps, but it exists. I know a guy who's smart and high achieving with >2300, but there is absolutely nothing special that distinguishes him from the 300 other kids at my high school who apply to Stanford every year and get rejected. Both his parents went to Stanford; he got in.</p>
<p>sly_vt: where did you get info about the legacy acceptance rate?</p>
<p>legacies mean almost nothing to Brown. It's like the only ivy league where you can't get in my just "knowing someone"...</p>
<p>hockey: I'm an alumni interviewer and have seen statistics from admissions. I have more specific percentages; I just don't feel like digging them out.</p>
<p>you'llsee: That's not true. There are enrollment goals for every class, directives that come from administration. Accepting legacies is one (Legacies have made up 10 percent of the class for several years running.) And Brown, like most other schools, considers the application of celebrities and the very very wealthy differently than your typical student.</p>
<p>Kristina: Schools have different policies; you can't compare Brown and Stanford. The issue of legacy admits has been discussed plenty on CC, and I'm not going to put my toe in. Private college admissions is not a meritocracy -- period, end of story, deal with it.</p>
<p>thanks for all the replies. my dad did go to brown but im definitely not relying on that and expecting that will get me in. i really like the school, i dont think i will get in but theres hope i guess. speaking of celebrities, when i visited jack nicholson's daughter was touring at the same time, but they had a private tour obviously.</p>
<p>i remember that</p>
<p>there are ton of legacies here, so i can only assume they get an edge</p>
<p>hiii rafaela,</p>
<p>My son graduated from Brown. Dustin Hoffman's, Kevin Costner's, Danny Devito's and Garry Trudeau's kids were all in his graduating class. (I think that there were other "celebrity" offsprings, but I can't recall at the moment.) We "bumped" into these "celebrities" at various times either during campus tours, parents' weekends or graduation. Interestingly, I never saw them treated differently than the rest of the parents or kids there. Specifically, Hoffman was on one of our campus tours (not a private tour) and Costner was seating one row over at graduation with his family, the same as everyone else. The kids themselves led pretty normal lives at Brown. I think that one of the reasons so many celebrities send their kids to Brown is that students there do not fuzz over them and the kids can be themselves.</p>
<p>A girl from my school with average grades got in. She's a legacy and I think her family donated money to Brown. I understand how the financial side of it might affect Brown's decision to accept her...but still I was angry that she got accepted instead of other more brilliant and talented students.</p>
<p>^^^i agree with you, but it's really important to remember that this is not exclusive to Brown.</p>
<p>if my dad went to brown grad school does that make me a legacy?</p>
<p>from personal experience, i think being a legacy is quite a leg up at Brown, moreso than most schools. i've read mixed stats, but i think it's like a 15-20% more likely chance for one to get in as opposed to a non-legacy. certainly worked for me, but many also do not get in (i don't have the stats in front of me, but i think it's, most recently, about only 1/3 of legacies who apply gets in- i'll edit when i recheck the stats).</p>
<p>considering the number of legaciecs i know here, i would highly agree with Hilly.</p>
<p>I don't know about grad school.</p>
<p>To baseballnerd: It might not make you a legacy, but I know when I was applying to Brown there was a place to fill out if your parent(s) had attended a Brown Graduate School</p>