<p>With all of the competition these days, is there any sway if you have a successful brother or sister currently enrolled at NU? Or does the ad com only really consider $$$ contributing legacies?</p>
<p>I posted this question a while ago and no one responded to this question. I would like to know as well.</p>
<p>hmm. well, maybe someone will answer this time, or maybe no one knows. I am SURE that $$$ contributing legacies are an advantage! But I do wonder about brothers and/or sisters.</p>
<p>NU does seem to have a thing for twins.</p>
<p>I think it makes sense that the weaker she/he is, the larger the contribution is needed. Maybe someone in the applied math dept came up with a mathematical model for it. Hmm...that sounds like a good MMSS thesis project!! ;)</p>
<p>(Ears perking up) Why do you say NU has a thing for twins? More so than any other comparable college?</p>
<p>At most schools, a direct sibling is a heavy boost/ hindrance depending on the presetnly matriculating student's performance. One admissions officer told me (I think it was Georgetown) that a sibling's performance had the highest correlation with their sibling's compared to all other metrics. So if you have a sibling here, and they're rocking 4.0's, you're golden. If they're barely staying afloat (Except in the beer of FIJI or DU), I'd weep.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>that's B.S.</p>
<p>My sibling is doing terrible at a college I want to go to and getting mostly B's and C's. I know I'm a lot smarter than them. You can't judge someone's future performance primarly on their sibling's past performance.</p>
<p>really? my older bro is in HPME at NU and doing well. Maybe that will help me.</p>
<p>Twins: I don't have any solid basis for my comment and I can't begin to compare NU to other schools, but I have noticed that there are many sets of twins matriculating at NU. Maybe it's like that at all colleges and universities, I don't know.</p>
<p>Siblings: I'm going to answer my own original question. </p>
<p>After thinking about it, I think that a golden matriculating sibling is a hook if the applying sibling also meets the criteria for admission. </p>
<p>If the admissions committee had to pick between two applications - all things being equal - the applicant with the golden currently enrolled sibling would probably have the edge and get the nod.</p>
<p>I don't think that an enrolled slacker sibling is going to keep a sibling out if s/he has proven her/himself to be a golden applicant.</p>
<p>I read that duke lady's admission confidential book and in it she said that having a sibling was a big advantage in admissions (at duke at least). Over at duke, they would look up the stats of the sibling who they let it in, and if the applicant had at least those stats or better they would let them in as well.</p>