Advice from an admitted student

45_Percenter
Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:51:02 +0000

chachacha:



I’ll repeat this once more.

!!! OR YOU COULD BE LEGACY !!!

I know two kids that got in.


Kid1 was 3 generation legacy: 1880 SAT, 3.6 UW GPA: accepted wharton
(and no he didn’t found a business or anything extraordinary)
Kid2’s mother attended. He got an interview with Eric Furda.
1980 SAT, 3.4 UW GPA: accepted CAS


These numbers are not estimates. They’re very good friends of mine and were bragging about it to me. Of course, I can only be happy for them so I’m in no way bitter. (also because I applied RD)

But, in my country, we call this “democratic” process nepotism.



Such anecdotal “evidence” notwithstanding, legacy status only confers a real benefit during the Early Decision round and, even at that point, about 60% of legacy applicants (and perhaps an even higher percentage this year with the lower overall ED admit rate of 26%) are NOT accepted, as indicated by the admissions statistics at the bottom of this page:

[Penn Alumni: Alumni Council on Admissions](http://www.alumni.upenn.edu/aca/overview.html)