<p>Hello,
My father completed his fellowship in Umich Medical School. </p>
<p>Is this considered legacy for an undergrad. student?</p>
<p>My father was also a clinical instructer at another university.</p>
<p>Is this considered legacy?</p>
<p>Will the following cases help me in my admissions?</p>
<p>Bump…</p>
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<p>I think he has to have actually graduated from the school for you to be a legacy, but I’m not 100% on that.</p>
<p>Colleges and universities have their own policies on legacies. You should check Michigan’s web site. If you don’t find the answer there, you can call and ask.</p>
<p>Being a clinical instructor is NOT a legacy, but some colleges do give a boost to children of employees. You will have to check on that.</p>
<p>I don’t believe so. If he did his undergrad there, it would help . . . but med school? I don’t think so.</p>
<p>Just speaking from my own personal experience, though. My dad graduated from (and taught at) Yale medical school . . . and I couldn’t get into Yale to save my life. Not undergrad, not grad . . . the only thing I didn’t try was med school! :D</p>
<p>^ Maybe he needed to bequeath a building? :)</p>
<p>Some places do consider residency at their hospital legacy while others don’t. A large part depends on how the hospital is set-up and who writes the pay checks. Even if it doesn’t count as legacy, it certainly doesn’t hurt to have a parents who has been there.</p>
<p>Clinical professorships don’t count as legacy as far as I know.</p>
<p>Does Michigan even care about legacy? Many publics don’t even consider it, so the point is moot.</p>
<p>Legacy has very little weight in the admission of UMich. Also, I don’t think a research fellow (I was one of them too) will be considered as legacy.</p>
<p>Your father would be classified as legacy under the current policies of the University of Michigan. Legacy does help at Michigan, but it’s effects are so minor that it probably wont give you any noticeable advantage and most likely wont change the outcome of your application, even if you’re borderline.</p>