<p>What does interesting family connection mean? Someone who went to Harvard? Your parents are the only ones that count as legacies, and admission officers don’t care about others. Grandparents, maybe, but nothing beyond that. </p>
<p>If your cousins cousins cousins girlfriend is senator for Iowa, forget it. Nobody could care less. You need to make good judgement decisions about this; how can an admission officer take this piece of information and make my app more convincing?</p>