<p>Hypothetically speaking, if I were the child of a faculty member, would I get a "hook"? Of course my grades and everything would have to be good but would it give my application a little nudge? Or would it not matter?</p>
<p>I am asking because a girl in my school, her dad works at Rutgers and I heard that she gets an almost automatic approval because of that. (She could get into Rutgers even if she didn't though).</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, does this same thing apply to Penn? </p>
<p>(and No i am not a child of a faculty member, but I am a very curious applicant)</p>
<p>Pretty much, yes. I have not heard of a qualified child of a faculty member or high-level administrator who applied and was not admitted. There probably have been some, sometime, but in general being a “facbrat” is a very strong hook. Not just at Rutgers or at Penn: everywhere.</p>
<p>I can’t speak for Penn, but I can say that at many schools faculty dependents may get relaxed standards, but not an automatic admit. I’ve known dependents to not get in. Now, higher-level administration may be a different story, but faculty and staff it’s a hook but not a guarantee. As with anything though, the more selective the school, the less it would matter.</p>
<p>Faculty children are generally very qualified and intelligent to begin with, probably because of the home environment that is typically supported by academics. The faculty I know of at Penn usually have sent their kids to Ivy league or other top schools and the faculty members at other schools who are friends with my parent also often send their kids to top schools. I am the child of a professor at a different top ten university, but I got in early to Penn so I don’t know if it would have affected my chance at that school. Its very likely that I would have been accepted.</p>