<p>Theoretically they consider you a legacy if you have a grandparent who went there, but they don’t send the grandparents one of those “legacy” letters…which leads me to suspect that a grandparent doesn’t count for much, unless it’s a big name.</p>
<p>I wonder if it might actually hurt to be in a legacy pool, unless you went to a prep school and have all the big $$ packaging, activities, and advantages to display. A public high school kid from a small town isn’t going to look like much next to someone from Andover whose Model UN trip was to Paris as opposed to the nearby state U, and so forth. Especially if they are an unhooked middle class white kid.</p>