<p>I have an uncle that I have barely spent 1 hour talking to (married into the family.) Anyway, he graduated from Harvard and taught Religious Theology there for some time. Can this help my chances in any way? My transcript is at the following:</p>
<p>Does he teach there still ? Since he married into the family and isn't really a immediate familiy member, I don't know if it would help you unless he is still teaching.</p>
<p>Good Luck,</p>
<p>Jerod</p>
<p>No he does not teach there anymore. He lives in a quaker village now or something weird lol. Anyway thanks for the reply.</p>
<p>You'd have to already have excellent stats to have it help at all. A family member(extended) of mine teaches at Yale but I never had the stats or even desire to go there. It may have helped me because he was teaching in the department that I was interested in... I'm not sure though.</p>
<p>If you have legacy at harvard you can have **** grades and still get in. Applicants who have harvard legacy have an acceptance rate of 60%</p>
<p>I am so sick and tired of people with these random connections and legacies asking if they can get in. Try to get in on your own merit. I think that this entire system has become corrupt. An admission to AHrvard should be about true scholarsip and character, not some far-fetched connections. This is not meant to detract from your achievements, I just feel that legacy cases in genreral should be done away with.</p>
<p>ahimsa48- I agree but I don't think that the type of legacy status that most have would compensate for below par grades/scores. Granted if your father/grandfather/mother/grandmother gave millions to a school, you could probably get in regardless and I'm not so sure I don't agree with that.... I mean, honestly, with enough money you can do anything including get into college. Most ivies are private and in the business of making money(along with creating a better future, educating the world leaders, etc)</p>
<p>I agree with you completely. It is, however, a game, and I will do whatever it takes to win. Look at my accomplishments above ^. I work my ass off. I'm just curious if they would look at an uncle that was part of the faculty at some time. Don't ridicule me, ridicule them.</p>