<p>Does grad school count as legacy for undergrad admissions at cornell?
My dad spent 4 years in cornell grad schools and got 2 degress, MS and MBA
does it count as legacy for cornell? (i know some school does and some school doesnt)</p>
<p>if not, does it help?</p>
<p>I'm not sure. I know that for Harvard it doesn't. I had another question about legacy, too. I'm thinking the answer is no, but do cousins, aunts, and uncles (basically indirect family) count for some kind of legacy?</p>
<p>the answer is for grad school, if it's ur parents or grandparents, YES (i called and asked...it's just the same)</p>
<p>other than parents or grandparents, NO</p>
<p>IF you have relatives who have attended Cornell but who do not help for a legacy admit, you might try to mention them somehow in your "Why Cornell" essay or in a cover letter. Explain how you first became familiar with Cornell through their stories about the school, how much they enjoyed their time at Cornell, blah, blah. It can't hurt, because it shows that you have some familiarity with the school beyond the tour and info session.</p>
<p>Legacy Listing in Cornell Alumni Magazine:
<a href="http://cornellalumnimagazine.com/Archive/2005julaug/pdfs/JA05Legacies.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://cornellalumnimagazine.com/Archive/2005julaug/pdfs/JA05Legacies.pdf</a></p>
<p>Being the Child, Grandchild or Great-Grandchild of a Cornellian counts as a Legacy, but is is far from a guarantee of admission.</p>
<p>More important in admission is that you make the case why Cornell is the right fit for you.</p>
<p>any degree from the university is considered legacy. they are really looking for parents/grandparents. sometimes they ask about siblings or any other relative, but it is really rare to just get in becuase of your family connections, unless they donated a billion dollars to the school.</p>
<p>From this months Cornell Alumni News ( July August 2007 )
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The 3,670 undergraduate students who entered the University in fall 2006 included 513 who are known to be the children, grandchildren, or great-grandchildren of alumni.
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<p>wow way to bring this back up</p>
<p>The feeling used to be that it helped a lot- if you apply ED.</p>
<p>I have several Cornell acquaintances whose kids went there.
Penn is another school that, when we visited, just out and said that it meant a lot (with ED).</p>
<p>But things just keep getting more and more competitive, and I imagine it gets tougher to keep accepting alumni kids at the same rate in the face of the ever-increasing pile of applicants.</p>
<p>I have a friend whose kid was accepted for a future year, or something like that. He's there now.</p>
<p>I have another friend who's an alum of another selective school, his kid applied last year. They rejected the kid, and then wrote him a letter intended to be responsive to alumni, but just made him feel worse: "we had so many qualified applicants..." (Him: just what are you implying about my kid, who I happen to think is also pretty darned qualified...)</p>
<p>As an alum, it makes you feel terrible if your kid is a reasonable candidate but doesn't get in. When you know so many others whose kids did get in. You start wondering" They're asking me for money all the time, and then this is what they do?"</p>
<p>With no real evidence, I pretty much felt both my kids would get in if they applied, but the thing is neither of them wanted to.</p>
<p>Which brings up the point I keep wondering about, given my experience with my own kids:</p>
<p>What are the odds that, out of all the colleges in this country, the school that happened to fit me the best, all those years ago, happens to fit my kid the best today? Given that we are completely different people, with different interests, coming from different places, and different life experiences?</p>
<p>That lightning bolt of aligned interests where legacy might work for my family has simply not happened.</p>
<p>FWIW, Princeton told me that legacy consideration extends to grad school, such as it is, but it doesn't count for much in any event there.</p>
<p>I think its highly variable on legacy - If the parent/grandparent was an extremely famous or successful and retained ties (by sending checks or otherwise) to Cornell the son or daughter's legacy status will carry a great deal more weight than if the parents were fuc*-ups. </p>
<p>So basically, legacies could theoretically buy acceptance to Cornell, but it would take a great deal of pull (for example, sons/daughters of trustees)</p>
<p>If you are qualified and interesting, which probably describes 85% of Cornell applicants, being a legacy can put you in. They have to be convinced you can do the work, but yes, legacy does help.</p>