<p>My son is applying to L'ville this year. How helpful is being a legacy to his admissions chances(but not one who has made major donations, etc...)?</p>
<p>I think being a legacy would be VERY helpful. Legacies almost always get preferred treatment, assuming the family member that attended the school was a good student.</p>
<p>Do they take that into account? I would think they’d take into account particularly large donations, but I don’t know if they would go back and search my academic record while a student (for the record: I ended up attending one of HYP based on academics - don’t want to give away too much info here).
I’m sure being a legacy gives an admissions boost, but I’d like to have some sort of feel for how much. From the lack of responses here, it seems that others don’t have much of a sense of it either.</p>
<p>Below is one of the most recent conversations on this issue. If you perform a search you will find other threads and a range of opinions on the issue, but the consensus seems to be that parent/grandparent legacy is a hook.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/797810-legacies-effect-admissions.html?highlight=Legacy[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/797810-legacies-effect-admissions.html?highlight=Legacy</a></p>
<p>Thanks. That thread gave me some sense of the legacy value for my son.</p>
<p>L’ville is the only boarding school to which he is applying. We live in an area with significant other options. We’ll see where he gets in and then figure it all out in a few months.</p>