<p>Does MIT consider legacy? If someone has been interviewing applicants for MIT admission for many years, would his/her children have better chance to get into MIT?</p>
<p>No.
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<p>See [Just</a> To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/just-to-be-clear-we-dont-do-legacy]Just”>Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>As stated above, MIT doesn’t actively prefer legacies. But I wouldn’t be surprised if children of MIT-educated parents are admitted to MIT (and other top schools) at high rates – having highly-educated parents provides a student with a number of advantages, starting very early on in life.</p>
<p>We all know MIT turns down many many highly qualified applicants simply because it does not have the room to accept every qualified applicants. What I am asking is if a qualified applicant has a somewhat a connection (like legacy, interview for MIT etc), would this give the applicant somewhat an advantage?</p>
<p>Well, LuoSciOly posted a link to one of Chris’ blogs, but I don’t think you read it. For your convenience, here is a quote from it:
“Our institutional research website says, quite specifically, that “alumni relations” are “not considered.” And I can tell you, from having sat on countless committees, that we simply don’t care if your parents (or aunt, or grandfather, or third cousin) went to MIT. In fact, one of the things most likely to elicit a gigantic facepalm is when a student namedrops some incredibly attenuated connection because they think it is going to help them get into MIT.”</p>
<p>I imagine something like this: “My aunt’s father-in-law, David Schmidt, went to Sloan”.</p>