Am I a Legacy

Amadeuic
Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:19:29 +0000

Well, I’m just saying to get a rough idea.

Any degree of legacy helps.

But, say, if your father used HBS to propel him to CEO-level and donates hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, you can probably have a slightly less amazing application and still get in.

But you still benefit.

Harvard could make another top ten university simply out of the first 1800 people who didn’t make the cut; there really isn’t much change from 250-5000 of applicants. So, if you have a legacy, you’re going to have that extra incentive for Harvard to accept you. But you still have to create an application that would give you at least a fair chance of getting in anyway.

To answer the OP’s question: yeah, you’re a legacy.