Will having a single grandfather who went to MIT for undergrad + PhD count as legacy?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Or is it restricted to your parents only?</p>

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<p>I don’t think it would really matter, since MIT doesn’t give any admissions advantages to legacies.</p>

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<p>MIT doesn’t give any admissions benefit to legacies (there is an admissions benefit to children of professors). So it doesn’t matter who you are related to.</p>

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<p>Your grandfather wasn’t married to your grandmother? Very progressive for the 1950’s.</p>

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<p>^Please refram from ■■■■■■■■ due to alternate wording of the title of this topic.</p>

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<p>He wasn’t ■■■■■■■■.</p>

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<p>Why should they?</p>

<p>Of the many, many reasons that one should be admitted to a good college, “because my relatives went there” isn’t one of them.</p>