legacies and siblings

DiveAlive
Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:46:06 +0000

i don’t know much about siblings, i think in that case you’d have to get in on your own merit, and have having a sibling be a “tipper”… idk.

about legacies, i think it depends on the degree of legacy. i mean if you’re applying for hotchkiss and you’re from the GM/Mars family, then i’d assume you’re pretty much guaranteed admission. but if you were applying to exeter and you had like a grandfather who graduated from there but didn’t really give anything to their grad fund, ever, i don’t know if it would count for much… in general, i think it would HELP, but would not guarantee admission. nowhere near that, really… unless your family donated a bunch of buildings, i don’t think it would count for too much.

i’m sure there’s some really long, detailed debate about this buried somewhere. any parents care to chime in…?