<p>My Dad attended UVa for grad school. Would this give me an advantage? I have heard tat it would give me, an out of state student, in state treatement for admissions; is this true?
I have not found a straight answer on their website.</p>
<p>yes you are correct, in state for admissions (out of state still for tuition).</p>
<p>This question gets asked and mis answered every year. Legacy applicants are admitted at a rate that approximates that of in state students. The legacy applicant pool, however, is quite competitive and many legacy applicants with credentials superior to many in state admittees, do not get admitted. Legacy applicants are not considered in state for admission purposes.</p>
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[UVa</a> School of Architecture | Alumni Services](<a href=“http://www.arch.virginia.edu/alumni/services/]UVa”>http://www.arch.virginia.edu/alumni/services/)</p>
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<p>So I think what you say is truer than what I said for obvious reasons!! lol, but I think there is more that isn’t being disclosed (in state students aren’t admitted at 50%!!)</p>
<p>Remember that the legacy pool includes Virginia and non-Virginia applicants.</p>
<p>Being a legacy is going to help your chances as an OOS student. There is no doubt about that. I always try to be careful about throwing around the idea that you are a Virginian. You aren’t. You’re still a resident of your home state. Every now and then, someone assumes that the admission practices trickle down (or up) to how they will be billed. OOS students pay OOS tuition, regardless of legacy status.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, I recently attended a workshop for legacies and their alumni parents. Our liason mentioned that approximately 53% of the legacy applicants were accepted last year. She also stated that these students were highly qualified candidates. </p>
<p>And, she went on to say that there are no guarantees for offers of admission and that all the way through one’s senior year the grades matter. One legacy candidate’s grades dropped and the offer of admittance was recinded. So, legacy or not, work hard, make good grades, take the most rigorous courses that your school offers, etc.</p>
<p>Well if you think about it this way… Most children who parents are Alumni come from educated families and know what their children need to do inorder to get into the school. So I assume that the majority of legacy students have average, if not above average, stats. On the other hand, for children who come from families where the parents graduated from bad colleges (I don’t like putting it this way but it’s true, even my dad, a graduate of FSU will admit it) are at somewhat of a disadvantage. I was told by my parents that I should be aiming for FSU… Although they always wanted me to go to UVA my parents never expected me to achieve the grades and such inorder to put myself in a position where I even had a chance at getting into a top ranked school.</p>