Chances for a junior (Columbia, NYU, Barnard, Uchicago, Umichigan, Syracuse, Duke)

Hello - the faculty connection can help a lot. Especially if your father is a full professor.

Confused as how your dad can be on faculty at both colleges at the same time? Is he an adjunct professor? Or volunteer faculty? If so that generally doesn’t help as much as being a fulltime faculty. Then within the faculty, there are various levels (full professor vs associate vs assistant). Where are his paychecks coming from? Yale or Duke?