<p>Yale’s supplement to the Common App requests information on all Yale degrees earned by family members. <a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/pdf/yale_supplement_paper.pdf[/url]”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/pdf/yale_supplement_paper.pdf</a></p>
<p>So it looks like Yale will at least consider your parents’ graduate degrees. The common wisdom at most colleges, though, is that the most potent legacy preference goes to an applicant whose parent received an undergraduate degree at the college in question. And in any case, the legacy advantage at Yale is not very strong.</p>