<p>Would having an uncle, who attended Princeton, be consider me as a legacy student?</p>
<p>I'm not sure, but I think he is an active alumnus.</p>
<p>How would legacy or his activity in Princeton help me?</p>
<p>Can anybody answer my question?</p>
<p>I'm fairly certain that legacy status is only given to direct children of alumni.</p>
<p>It won't help unless he is a substantial donor.</p>
<p>Not a legacy. If you want to mention him to show the sincerity of your interest in Princeton...you've spoken with him about Princeton all your life, whatever. But generally, doesn't do you any good.</p>
<p>What if a person's father went to graduate school at Princeton? Is that person given legacy status (classified as a legacy applicant when Princeton calculates those admit rates etc)?</p>
<p>Yep 10 chars</p>
<p>Well technically not. If you are applying to the undergrad school, one of your parents needs to have graduated (or at least attended) Princeton's undergrad program.</p>
<p>There isn't even a space for anything other than parent on the Princeton application</p>
<p>mom and pop are the only legacies...
not even a gparent are considered true legacies.</p>
<p>you could mention it in an essay about him encouraging you, but not a true legacy.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure a granddad helps if one of your parents went as well.</p>
<p>Wait, Cibbir, what do you mean technically no? Could you or Weasel tell me how you guys knew (or I guess thought you knew, since both of you can't be right, lol)?</p>
<p>or you could donate a college to the university.</p>
<p>Didn't help my son. Uncle fairly successful. Son NMS, #1 HS, could pay full freight. - DS probably would not have attended P when he had a better offer from a engineering focused school.</p>
<p>Strictly speaking, having a parent that attended a Princeton graduate department does not count as a "legacy". However, you might get a slight intangible nod, since you do have some connections at Princeton. Having a parent (or relative) graduate from the undergraduate program is much, much more useful when applying to Princeton's undergraduate program. So the undergrad admissions office will not categorize you as a "legacy" if you have connections to the graduate school but will still make note of it, whatever the merits may be...</p>
<p>Oh ok...</p>
<p>I was told that being a legacy applicant only affords a "slight tip on the scale," so if having a parent who attended grad school there is significantly less helpful than something that is only marginally helpful, then that makes it what? Negligible?</p>
<p>Lol, darn. Oh well.</p>
<p>I believe having a parent who received a Ph.D at Princeton qualifies as a legacy</p>
<p>my great uncle (mom's uncle) has 3 children (my somewhat cousins) who all graduated from princeton about 20 years ago. they are all hugely successful now and give quite a substantial ammount of money to the school each year. on top of that, my uncle gives even more. could this help me at all?</p>
<p>swoopes - Princeton won't care unless great uncle pledges to donate a building or an endowed chair in your honor. Sorry!</p>
<p>It really depends on how much your uncle donates. If he gives a lot and lets the development office know that you're applying, your name might wind up on the list of desirable applicants that the development office forwards to the admissions committee. Otherwise, having an uncle who attended won't help.</p>