Do you have a higher chance of getting into a college if your parent works for a company affiliated with the college? Someone told me that they have a 85% chance of getting into Hopkins med program because of this. Is this actually true or is it absurd?
No. If a parent is a major donor to a college, that makes a difference.
Whatever follows from, “someone told me,” is likely to be false.
Haha…nope.
Med program? So graduate school? No way. For undergrad, direct employees of a college may have a tip factor. But making a claim as defined as 85% is just invention.
JHU Hopkins is one of the premier medical schools in the nation, and unless someone was an eight-figure donor, don’t count on it…at all.
This is fascinating. You may want to ask this person how they arrived at 85%. What kept them from reaching 90%? What vaulted them over the unfortunates whose chances are in the mere 70th percentile? I hope this person has some safeties lined up.