Legacy still counts?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
1

<p>If my father want to UNC-CH as a graduate student and got his masters degree there, would I still be considered a legacy?</p>

2

<p>Probably yes. Legacy really doesn’t mean much here though. They do ask about it on the application, but it is not likely to get you ahead unless you are being compared to someone with equal qualifications and they only have space for one of you.</p>

3

<p>Yes/maybe (secondary legacy), but the impact may not be as large as it was graduate school and not undergraduate. </p>

<p>See the references below.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2011/01/applicants_aided_by_legacy[/url]”>http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2011/01/applicants_aided_by_legacy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“Legacy’s Advantage May Be Greater Than Was Thought”>http://chronicle.com/article/Legacys-Advantage-May-Be/125812/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“Carolina Alumni”>Carolina Alumni;

<p>“How are children of alumni judged in the admissions process?
For N.C. applicants, being the child of a Carolina alumnus helps only as a tie breaker. Out-of-state children of alumnu do fare better than others from out of state.The UNC System Board of Governors sets a quota - currently 18 percent - for the number of out-of-state students admitted to the freshman class each year. Carolina sets aside about 80 out-of-state legacy spaces a year, and nonresident legacy applicants enjoy roughly twice the acceptance rate as those who do not have a parent who attended Carolina. In 2006, 39.2 percent of out-of-state applicants who were children of alumni were accepted to UNC; 19 percent of out-of-state applicants whose parents were not alumni.”</p>