<p>My daughter has double legacy (father, grandfather). I heard UVA is trying to move away from legacy preference. Is that true? she was deferred ED.</p>
<p>I don't think UVA has changed its position on legacies. Being a legacy only greatly helps if you're an out-of-state student, because you would be considered an in-state student for admissions purposes. So practically speaking, your chances for being accepted moves from around 25% to 45%. If you're in-state however, tons of legacies apply each year, since so many legacies live in VA, so you wouldn't really stand out based on that criteria.</p>
<p>Also if you are a first generation college student, like me, that plays a big weight like legacy. I think that if you are a legacy then it will help even if you are in-state.</p>
<p>I would think that IS students get more weight from being a first-gen than being a legacy, because like Globalist said, theres a ton of UVA alumi who have VA residency who have children applying. But being OOS, legacy plays a large factor. This might be a good question to post on Dean J's blog > <a href="http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/%5B/url%5D">http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/</a></p>
<p>Dean J? any insight?</p>
<p>OOS legacies are given the same consideration as instate applicants. Instate legacies are given no additional consideration. There's not much more to it than that.</p>
<p>Dean J., can you also clear up how much in-state first generation college student helps in the admission process?</p>
<p>Legacy = being treated like an in-state applicant minus a snidgen perhaps. If you are alreay in-state, being a legacy also adds little or nothing.</p>
<p>UVA isn't going to accept a bad student just because they are a legacy, but if a student is borderline, i would think they would take the legacy student over the non-legacy. maybe not, i'm not an expert. either way, legacy can't hurt right?</p>
<p>how about the kid's parent is 2.0 GPA graduate? hehe just wondering if this may affect the decision.</p>
<p>of course it will. its amazing how much information is available to the adcoms in the 5 minutes they look at a students application. not only do they know ur parents gpas, but also any parking tickets they may have gotten 30 years ago while at UVa. hope they didn't just throw any of those UVa tickets away! i know i have...i guess my kids are just screwed, arn't they?</p>
<p>yes, I'd like to know about first generation too.</p>
<p>Legacies, make sure that you contact Cindy Garver in the alumni office. She and her assistant really clear up the admissions process in the sessions they hold and personally go over your application with you.</p>
<p>Isn't it too late for those applicants that are waiting a decision now, bethesda?</p>
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He's joking...I hope. We don't have access to this information.</p>
<p>To clarify, a "double legacy" would be a child with two parents who are alumni, not two generations of alumni on one side. It doesn't matter if everyone in the family went to UVA or just one parent, a legacy is a legacy.</p>
<p>The only tip given is for OOS legacies and as you've been told, they are read as Virginians.</p>
<p>I hesitate to compare 1st gen status to legacy status...they're just different.</p>
<p>of course i'm joking ;-)</p>
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I am just curious but how different? I am wondering because I want to know how much it weighs in admissions ince I am a 1st gen. student. I am not comparing which weighs more but how much does it help?</p>
<p>It's different because one has a consistent, predetermined benefit, while the other is evaluated on a case-by-case basis. They're two different concepts: one functions as a way of keeping alumni happy and maintaining a legacy between generations at the University, while the other is a component of the holistic approach to evaluating applications. FWIW, I think that first gen status would help out someone from a coal mining town in southwest VA or a URM more than an asian kid from McLean whose parents are computer programmers. Does that make sense?</p>