<p>I just want to make a comment about the question of putting where your parents went to school on the application.
If an application asks for this information, then leaving it out is an ommission that will be noted. You don’t want to do that - it’s evasive, and will seem so.
If it helps, my D, who is a soph, put down her dad’s school, Princeton, as well as my own UC, and it didn’t hurt her as an RD applicant. Honesty really is the only way to go, folks. I doubt that they sat and thought, “oh, she probably applied to Princeton - better not take her.” That’s silly.</p>
<p>Also, Yaledad - my D had an interview at Yale with a current grad working with admissions. Don’t know if it made any difference, but it satisfied us that we were giving the school the information that D was very serious about the school, to the point of coming from Ca to interview during the fall of senior year. (She wanted another look to see if she wanted to apply Ed at the time, which she decided against)
So on campus interviews were possible two years ago. I would certainly inquire.</p>