<p>My mother is a Professor at Princeton and has been for 15 years.</p>
<p>Does this raise my chances of being accepted there?</p>
<p>about what GPA would I be required to have? </p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>It might help you about as much as being a legacy. Yes, it should help a little. Did you mention it in your essays?</p>
<p>I don’t think it needs to be mentioned on the essays. It will be mentioned on the Common App under family background, and also on many supplements schools ask if a member of the family is on faculty/staff. I don’t know if Princeton asks this.</p>
<p>shouldn’t this be a question you ask mom?</p>
<p>I don’t know the specific answer for Princeton, but the general answer for many (most?) schools is yes, being a facbrat is a significant admissions boost.</p>
<p>lillyflowerlilly</p>
<p>If your mom indeed is a faculty member at Princeton, she should be able to find out who in the admissions office is responsible for advising faculty children about the admissions process. Then, you need to make an appointment with that specific person to discuss your situation. Even if you aren’t admitted to Princeton, the university may have a full or partial tuition exchange with other colleges/universities that is available to faculty children.</p>
<p>And, if your mom can’t figure this out, ask the secretary who has been working in her department the longest. Usually they know everything.</p>
<p>The general rule of thumb on Ivy legacies is that you are expected to have the same test scores and GPAs as the non-recruited kids, and you have to have all the other expected ECs (leadership, commitment demonstrated, etc…) but you don’t have to be the purple zebra-the Olympic medalist, the valedictorian, the future Einstein. So the bar is a little lower in that respect-but not much.</p>