<p>How much will my father being an Alumni of NYU Undergraduate affect my chances of admission?</p>
<p>Here's what the admissions b/b says:</p>
<p>Nifty. Thanks for the expedient response.</p>
<p>My dad also went to NYU. Yes, being a legacy applicant does help, it can be a tie breaker between equal candidates (fyi, legacies tend to be nearly as competitve as regular candidates). </p>
<p>How much it will help you will depend on how good your stats are (ie are you competitve enough for NYU even without the legacy status) and also on who your dad is (ie has he made contributions to NYU, been involved in alumni activities, etc.).</p>
<p>-NYU class of '00</p>
<p>I'm not sure exactly how large a contribution must be to actually put my father on the map, but I know he's donated several thousand dollars to NYU. Then again, with how much money NYU deals with each year, that's nothing.</p>
<p>Your dad seems like he is involved, thus its likely your legacy status will help you (fyi, alumni children applying to NYU don't have to pay the application fee). Of course you are not guaranteed acceptance, but you'll get a good close review for sure, and your legacy status might just be the tie breaker that puts you over the top.</p>
<p>Good luck, and keep us posted.</p>
<p>:-) awesome.</p>
<p>My older brother went to Rider University undergraduate (not the best...) but worked pretty hard there and just applied to Tisch School of the Arts at NYU for Film School and got his call for an interview yesterday (~100 finalists get the call). He had virtually no extracurriculars, a mediocre GPA, a crap GRE, but a really impressive portfolio of everything he taught himself, no classes involved. Maybe there IS something to this legacy thing...</p>
<p>Oh yeah, there definitely is an advantage to being a legacy (not just at NYU, but at most top colleges out there). Colleges have a strong interest in admitting legacies to keep alumni happy and having the donations flow in.</p>