<p>if my brother is a freshman at UMichigan, does this help my chances at all? Or does he have to be an alumni instead of a current student?</p>
<p>I have a similiar question, if a sister goes to soph. of a college, does that help?</p>
<p>Brother or sidter being an alum does not make you a legacy and almost never helps, but one there now helps at some schools.</p>
<p>Does BC have this policy of helping a little if sister goes there?</p>
<p>in my petition for transfer to UIUC i made it clear that i would be closer to my older sister who is a predoctoral fellowship student there. we both agreed it would be a bit of a hook.</p>
<p>For what it's worth ...</p>
<p>I've heard anecdotal suggestions about reports (have never seen them) clearly showing that family donations (meaning essentially parent donations) to a given school go up dramatically when more than one child attends that school. That seems intuitive -- if your kids go to different schools, you wonder which school (if any) you should support; often you don't resolve the issue and support neither. Whereas if more than one kid goes to the same school, then it's sort of a family school and the likelihood of donating money is increased.</p>
<p>And then there's the "p-i-s-s-i-n-g off" factor -- if one child attends a school and child #2, assuming child #2 is truly a qualified candidate with a reasonable chance to get in, does NOT get in, then many parents may have a less positive feeling about the school. And this, in turn, might very well affect the willingness to open the wallet.</p>
<p>So, given that we all know colleges are businesses and are absolutely concerned with the financial side of their business, it would just seem logical to me that having a sibling there -- if you are otherwise and independently a quality candidate -- might definitely be a hook (at least at SOME schools).</p>
<p>"in my petition for transfer to UIUC i made it clear that i would be closer to my older sister who is a predoctoral fellowship student there. we both agreed it would be a bit of a hook."</p>
<p>Did you and your sister agree? Or was the adcom involved? Because you and your sister could agree that being tall is a hook, that doesn't make it so.</p>
<p>Wha? No my sister and I decided it would be a good thing to include. I dont see your argument; tallness is irrelevant here. We're not dumb! haha.</p>