Legacy Advantage at Vanderbilt

Pancaked
Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:11:16 +0000

One of my professors had a niece that was rejected from Vanderbilt and accepted to Princeton… Not so relevant to the thread but an interesting anecdote!

Legacy certainly gives you an advantage, but a slight advantage. There are a lot of applicants in that admission gray area-- they definitely have the profile for Vanderbilt, but there are just not enough slots… Legacy could help you out there. But it probably won’t take someone who has a weaker profile and push you in (unless the legacy is a big donor or someone really important!).