<p>my grandfather attended Dartmouth, is that legacy? and if it is, does it make a difference (better for admission) whether the legacy is your parent or grandparent? and going even further back, my great grandfather attended princeton. would that be legacy? any other knowledge or advice would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>You would not be considered a legacy applicant. Dartmouth considere legacies as students (or prospective students) whose mothers or fathers received their undergrad degree (AB) from the college. Graduates, of the Med School, Tuck or the other graduate programs are not considered legacies.</p>
<p>my grandfather did not attend a graduate program, he received an undergrad degree from dartmouth. i’m almost certain i am a legacy; i have done research and i have found that colleges these days will take grandparents or even great grandparents.</p>
<p>Sorry Teddy, but you are wrong on both counts. Colleges these days are highly variable in how they define legacy. And I’m very certain you won’t qualify for legacy Dartmouth based on your grandfather.</p>
<p>Here’s what Dartmouth Dean of Admissions Maria Laskaris has to say on the topic:</p>
<p>[TheDartmouth.com:</a> Legacy applications given more attention](<a href=“http://thedartmouth.com/2011/01/20/news/legacy]TheDartmouth.com:”>http://thedartmouth.com/2011/01/20/news/legacy)</p>
<p>Excerpt:</p>
<p>‘While institutions define the term “legacy” differently, Laskaris said the Admissions Office identifies legacy students as “the sons or daughters of those that received an undergraduate education,” at the College…’</p>
<p>Note that she she said sons and daughters, not grandsons and granddaughters. I think you should set your dreams of legacy admissions at Dartmouth aside and concentrate on bringing forward the very best set of your own merits that you can.</p>
<p>Excerpt: (further down in the article)
The study also revealed a “legacy admissions advantage,” in which the odds of a students with “any legacy” gaining admission to the sample colleges was 3.13 times higher than the rate for non-legacy students. The “any legacy” categorization in the study includes applicants who had a “parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle or sibling attend the institution as an undergraduate or graduate student.”</p>
<p>This is what i was talking about, it seems that if your parent attended, then your legacy is even stronger. but if a grandparent for example attended, it would still apply, but not have so much pull.</p>
<p>But perhaps that was a general statement for the ivy league. and dartmouth specifically only takes children of someone who attended… like you said… i hope not…</p>
<p>It’s a general statement for the 30 colleges in the study, not just the 8 Ivy League schools. The 3.13-fold “any legacy” boost is the AVERAGE boost across the 30 schools studied, but of course that does not apply equally to all individual schools included. Each school has its own policy. And Dean Laskaris makes it plain what Dartmouth’s policy is. (BTW, Harvard has the same only-parents-count policy as Dartmouth.)</p>
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<p>Maria Laskaris is the Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Dartmouth and she has said that Dartmouth only counts legacies as the sons and daughters of those who received an undergrad education. Sorry, your grandfather attending the college will not give you legacy consideration.</p>
<p>thats really disappointing… i dont seem to understand why a grandparent wouldnt even get some legacy consideration! i was so happy to have that legacy… but i guess not. do you think there would be any consideration?even though i dont fit dartmouth’s idea of legacy</p>
<p>The vast majority of people who are accepted are not legacies.</p>