<p>DW went to grad school at Penn and has PhD from SAS. </p>
<p>Would D get legacy preference at SEAS if she applied as a freshman ED?</p>
<p>What does DW stand for? The legacy benefit usually comes from grandparents or parents that went to Penn as seen on their supplement. I think siblings have minimal legacy. I don’t think uncles/cousins/aunts do.</p>
<p>DW - Dear Wife.</p>
<p>The question is whether having a parent with a graduate degree from Arts and Sciences has any legacy impact for an applicant to engineering.</p>
<p>Yes, your daughter is a legacy. Whether there’s a difference in weight between a undergrad and a grad legacy is something I’m not sure about, but I hope I was able to answer your main point of inquiry. :)</p>
<p>Penn does not distinguish between undergrad and grad degrees–or the different schools at Penn–in determining whether an applicant is a legacy:</p>
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<p>[Penn</a> Alumni: Alumni Council on Admissions](<a href=“http://www.alumni.upenn.edu/aca/legapply.html]Penn”>http://www.alumni.upenn.edu/aca/legapply.html)</p>
<p>So as far as Penn Admissions is concerned, ClassicRockerDad’s daughter is a legacy. Period. No difference in weight because her mom’s Penn degree is graduate, and not undergraduate.</p>
<p>CRD’s d definitely qualifies as legacy. Penn does make it pretty clear that legacy preference is given most weight if applying ED.</p>
<p>Thank you. That clarifies things. That link is great!</p>
<p>@OP: Sorry for not understanding the shorthand. But yes, like everyone else established, your daughter gets all the perks for legacy, which, for Penn, is a lot! (A lot more than other Ivy’s, at least.)</p>
<p>Remember, until relatively recently Penn’s graduate programs were much bigger deals than its undergraduate programs, and Penn undergraduate had a much higher admission rate than many of its peer institutions. Legacy preference ED was a marketing tool for Penn as much as anything else, and they certainly had no incentive to exclude the children of Wharton MBAs. Penn Law School JDs, or Penn Med School MDs.</p>
<p>That said, I think as with all other hyperselective institutions, legacy preference means less and less, and at Penn nothing RD.</p>