<p>Anyone else who is legacy get a letter in the mail saying that "we do not want to be guilty of assuming that a family connection automatically translates into perfect knowledge of cornell?".... was this just sent to legacy kids or to everyone.....</p>
<p>Yes, I got one and I am a legacy. I think it's just a letter sent to all legacy applicants opening the door for us to ask questions directly to the University.</p>
<p>I too got one.</p>
<p>would someone get that if they weren't a legacy but had alumni relation?</p>
<p>i received the letter today</p>
<p>My son (ED) received the same letter in the fall. It was probably just sent to those kids who Cornell views as legacy, i.e. parent, grandparent etc attended, not someone who had a different alumni connection.</p>
<p>must be lucky to be a legacy. i'd suggest you take full advantage of it and ask some intelligent questions about recent stuff at Cornell, so they know you're humble too and not "assuming perfect knowledge of Cornell"</p>
<p>Yep, I got one too. It's always been nice to tell people my mom graduated from Cornell. Out of curiosity, how heavily do you think admissions weighs legacy?</p>
<p>From what I know, if anything it's a tie breaker RD if anything for regular legacies. If your parents have donated $100k+, as would be expected it's a bigger factor.</p>
<p>from Dear Uncle Ezra, just FYI:</p>
<p>"You might be interested in hearing that the Class of 2008 entered with one 5th generation Cornellian, nineteen 4th generation Cornellians, and
sixty-seven 3rd generation Cornellians. A total of 491 students had at least one Cornell parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent."</p>