<p>What helps more, being a legacy or a first gen student?</p>
<p>Legacy (I think).</p>
<p>Depends on the school…</p>
<p>If you are a legacy, how can you be first generation?</p>
<p>Haha, yes to both. If you looked at this sight for a couple min, you could see that.</p>
<p>But ditto to the question above. :P</p>
<br>
<br>
<p>Does being a legacy help more? Or does being a first gen student help more?</p>
<p>I think legacy might help just a bit more. However, both help alot in admissions. :)</p>
<p>What’s defined as a legacy anyways? Someone whose parent/grandparent went to the school? Are children of alums of the graduate school considered legacies?</p>
<p>how could both help… if you’re one of these you are clearly not the other.</p>
<p>(… you clearly can’t be a first generation legacy)</p>
<p>Seriously people??? The OP never insinuates that (s)he is both, (s)he simply wants to know which distinction is more beneficial!</p>
<p>And it definitely depends on the university, because some schools don’t even consider legacy.</p>
<p>For those that do consider legacy, it obviously helps more because it makes the college fell guilty if they rejected someone whos related to the school.</p>
<p>I would have thought that first gen. students would have it better, but then again, it depends on colleges.</p>
<p>And I agree with sg12’s first 2 sentences.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Guilt has nothing to do with it if you don’t measure up to other candidates. Two words: cash money.</p>
<p>I got rejected from a school where I would have been 3rd generation legacy. Darn public schools.</p>
<p>I would think that being first generation would help more unless your family was a huge donor, but I don’t really know, just a guess.</p>