Legacy & Connections

bigred2014
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:11:30 +0000

My mom went to Cornell and interviews so I’ve gotten a kind of sense of what kind of students get in over the years. Legacy in any form certainly helps…my mom has said that if all things are roughly equal between two students that they’ll choose the legacy over the other. But I’ve also seen a double legacy get rejected (great GPA, near perfect SATs) and a non-legacy (similar stats) get in applying for the same school, same major. So, obviously, there aren’t any guarantees.