<p>For example, both my parents went to Boston University. My grandfather went to MIT, and my grandmothers (both sides) NYU and Columbia. Do ‘extended’ family members count? In other words, “how far does it go”?</p>
<p>It depends on the individual school. I have two grandparents and two cousins that attended Notre Dame and a cousin currently there. Yet I could not claim legacy because neither of my parents went there. In addion, I know UF cares only about parents unless your grandfather donated a building or something. It really just depends on the size of the school and how important legacy is to them.</p>
<p>bump…</p>
<p>A lot of schools only consider you a legacy if your immediate parent attended an undergraduate program at a school. My dad went to grad school at Columbia, I’m pretty sure that counts for nothing.</p>
<p>Yale counts offspring of grad students as legacy. Not sure about other family members.</p>
<p>P.S. Of course, it can HELP to have a grandparent be an alumnus of a particular school or a parent having gone to grad school there, I shouldn’t have said “counts for nothing,” it just doesn’t count for as much as being a strictly defined legacy.</p>