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<p>Since people keep asking about this…no. The only special consideration that legacies get is that if they’re rejected, the Dean of Admissions will read their file personally. This almost never results in the decision being overturned (I say “almost” because different admissions officers like subtly different things, and it stands to reason that every once in a blue moon there might be a legacy who sounds all the right notes for the dean but not for the others). It does, however, allow the Dean to say, when the parent or grandparent alum calls yelling, “I’m sorry sir/ma’am, but I read your son/daughter’s application myself, and the answer is still no.”</p>