Chance Me ED/RD (legacy)

sgopal2
Sun, 06 Oct 2019 12:38:52 +0000

There is great boost for being a child of faculty. Each college handles this differently. Some only give benefits to children of professors/assoc/asst profs. While others give boost to faculty + administrative staff.

As mentioned above, the recent Harvard case revealed how big of a boost. In terms of absolute numbers the odds are increased by 6.18 (518% increase). This is not as big of an increase as for legacy kids (odds 7.82 or 683%). Again this data is from Harvard College admissions, not sure how Penn handles things.

But given your grades and scores, I think you are almost certain to get accepted if you apply ED (as long as there are no negative dings in your reccs and you don’t have any disciplinary problems).