<p>Does having a parent as a professor at a university i'm applying to help in admissions at all? </p>
<p>It depends on the school, who your parent knows, what department they work in, etc. Likely, the answer is not at all, possibly very little. I think your parent should be able to provide or obtain the most accurate information regarding this, though.</p>
<p>CollegiateDreams is incorrect. Being a staff kid (or fac brat), all things being equal, is a golden ticket. Have your parent speak with his/her HR dept and you’ll get the lowdown. </p>
<p>I’m really hoping it helps!</p>
<p>While it probably won’t get you in, your parents will probably know if it will mean a significant tuition reduction.
In the case of my friend, whose parents and siblings are head of a department, professors and TA (respectively) at the college we’ll both be attending, I think that her only hook was her legacy status (her dad- the dept head- and all of her siblings went)- in fact, her mom, a professor who is usually on the interview board for the honors program, recused herself to avoid conflict of interest- but she was able to relax a lot more than I was through the process because she has a 50% tuition break per parent, so that she didn’t need to compete for a scholarship. (She got one anyway, but that’s just her stupid luck :). )</p>
<p>I stand corrected. I agree with T26E4, though. Have your parent get some accurate info!</p>
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<p>Actually, it depends significantly on the college as to whether and how much of a boost it is for admissions and scholarships. For example, the admit-by-numbers moderately selective public universities won’t care about anything but the numbers (GPA/rank/tests). Nothing changes at open admission community colleges.</p>
<p>At most universities, being a faculty brat is as good or even better than being legacy. 
What school are we talking about? (I doubt we’re talking about open-admissions schools 
but it may run from “you’re in unless you screwed up badly along the way” at your flagship to “significant boost” at some Top 10 Universities/LACs).
And, yes, you get a tuition discount. And in many cases a tuition discount at other colleges in agreement with your parent’s. And you are still eligible for scholarships.
So, your parent may be paid peanuts or considerably less than if s/he worked for a private company, but <em>you</em> get some benefits.</p>
<p>I agree that it’s likely to be a plus to have a parent who is on the faculty. It’s never a minus. My kids, however, wouldn’t be caught dead attending the university where I teach. Not because they didn’t like the school but because they wanted to be far away when they went to college, including not sitting in college class next to a bunch of kids from their high school.</p>
<p>Not saying that being a faculty kid gives you anything like an easy admit. But if you’re at or near the margin, you’re likely to be admitted. My kids would have had a free ride in tuition if they’d attended my university. But no dice.</p>
<p>It’s Johns Hopkins University! Obviously very hard to get into, so I’m hoping this helps. </p>
<p>yes it does. As long as you have everything at the right level of course.</p>
<p>My GPA is really high but my sat scores are a little lower than their average </p>
<p>It helps a lot. Politics is quite big in these kind of schools. There are many cases every year where a professors kid will be deferred and then the professor walks into the admissions office and basically flexes his or her political muscle. </p>
<p>JHU has educational / tuition benefits for dependents of employees:
<a href=“http://benefits.jhu.edu/tuition/”>Tuition Assistance - JHU Human Resources;
<p>If your test scores are slightly deficient, be glad that it is easier to bring test scores up than GPA, since you could do additional test preparation (or try the other of SAT and ACT if you have only done one) and retry. Do not depend on there being an admission preference when assessing reach/match/safety, even though there is a chance that there is one.</p>
<p>Its definitely my top choice, and her colleagues have been really confident I’ll be accepted, but I’m not sure myself! </p>
<p>It’s a huge break at WashU and the entry requirements are relaxed, but that’s a bit in the school’s interest. Employees with seven years service, I believe, get free tuition, or half the WashU tuition at any other school. Since it isn’t all that expensive to deliver an education to one more kid, they’d rather keep you at home for free rather than shell out $22K to another institution.</p>
<p>As far as going to another school when you’re a faculty kid, there’s a break too in entry requirements. We were at Tufts and talking with a student who insisted it wasn’t that tough to get in. He told his stats, which seemed suspiciously low for Tufts, but revealed a parent was a prof at Chicago. Ah ha!. I’m sure there was a trade - you let one of ours in, we let one of yours in. I’m sure being a prof at East Podunk State wouldn’t have the same pull at Tufts as Chicago did, but among peer institutions, there’s trading going on.</p>
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<p>“Since it isn’t all that expensive to deliver an education to one more kid, they’d rather keep you at home for free rather than shell out $22K to another institution.”</p>
<p>I think you’re right in general but I disagree with this analysis. Every spot they give to a full-ride dependent is a spot they aren’t filling with a full-pay student, and WashU is popular enough that they could easily find such a student.</p>
<p>You still have to show promise. At a very competitive holistic school, that is more than GPA. They will want to admit you- the rest is up to what you submitted, how they see your chances of success. There are no guarantees.</p>
<p>I don’t see this “trading.” </p>
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<p>The same could be said about any less than full pay spot filled by the university, and they choose to fill some of those spots with kids needing massive FA. Colleges and universities are no different than any other organization - they look out for their own first.</p>
<p>Tuition breaks are a perk that faculty get. It serves a couple purposes. First, it helps schools attract the best faculty members. Second, it minimizes the embarrassment (shared by the school and professor alike) that you get when the professor’s kid has to go to a different school.</p>
<p>A small correction. The school does not think of it as “One more kid doesn’t cost very much.” A big school could easily have 100 faculty kids all attending at once. That’s the equivalent of 3-4 full-time faculty members.</p>