<p>Does legacy increase your chances from OOS significantly? As in being put in the in-state pile of apps?</p>
<p>Being the son or daughter of a person holding a UVa degree does help with out of state applicants, but it is still extremely competitive. </p>
<p>The last official word was a few years ago, and said they planned to continue to hold OOS legacy applications to the same standard as IS applications for admissions purposes. So it’s not technically in the same pile, but you can effectively think of it that way, if they haven’t quietly changed their policy since then.</p>
<p>Please note that this was described as for admission purposes only, NOT for tuition or Financial Aid.</p>
<p>Also, stepchildren are legatees as well.</p>
<p>Yes, I think the stepparent needs to live with the son or daughter to count.</p>
<p>Ok thanks for telling me! At least I have some hope now.</p>
<p>It does they said in a chat with deans that oos legacy gets in state status while in state legacy has no sway on decision.</p>
<p>^ Please be careful with your terms. OOS applicants do NOT “get in state status.” IS/OOS status is determined by a separate administrative office, not admissions. Admissions have said they will use IS standards when evaluating OOS legacy applications, but they do NOT become IS thereby, and admissions are not required to have any such policy.</p>
<p>OOS legacy is considered for admission at the easier standards used for in-state applicants. Therefore, there’s no admissions advantage provided to an in-state legacy. Since they are being considered under the in-state admissions standards already.</p>
<p>OOS legacies pay at the OOS rate like all other OOS students.</p>
<p>Just remember that easier is still not easy. VA has some of the best school districts in the US and you are competing against those students. If I remember correctly, you are not technically considered in-state in the application pool, meaning that you do not count towards the 2/3 that UVA is required to admit from VA. However, like northwesty said, they use in-state standards for admitting you. </p>
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<li><p>OOS legacies are considered OOS students for purposes of the 1/3, 2/3 split required by the Commonwealth of VA. </p></li>
<li><p>OOS legacies are considered OOS students for purposes of how much they pay. </p></li>
<li><p>OOS legacies are considered for admissions using the same criteria used to judge IS applicants. That makes it easier, but not easy.</p></li>
<li><p>IS legacies are considered IS students for purposes of getting admitted, how much they pay, and whether they go against the 1/3 or the 2/3 bucket.<br>
Although I’ve never seen specific data, my sense is that a good chunk of the OOS students who wind up enrolling at UVA are OOS legacies. So by doing #3, UVA is able to get academically well-qualified students to enroll who will more often than not be full payors of #2.</p></li>
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<p>Horse is now beaten dead.</p>
<p>Not yet. I though UVA gave extra consideration for legacy in admissions. Relation with alumnus is marked as "Very Important’ on the Common Data sets. I don’t think that’s just for OOS applicants.They do ask on the app for alumni connections.</p>
<p>The legacy liaison folks told us that if you are OOS, your stats are evaluated as if you are an IS student; you are still responsible for OOS tuition and count as an OOS student. If you are IS, being a legacy might be beneficial if admissions officers are trying to decide between admitting you and a similarly qualified non-legacy student. They also said that each application receives two readers. If you are a legacy student, one of your readers is the head of admissions.</p>