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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree, PP. And to a school that really doesn't need it. How about taking a billion dollars and starting scholarships for poor, but capable students to get college degrees?

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Amen -- from a Stanford grad, spouse of grad, and parent of grad -- and that's exactly why I[b] don't give any $ to Stanford[/b][/quote]

You know you can earmark your donations to go only to scholarships, right?  Not that you need to do that at Stanford (but why not?)...

For example - we direct all donations to our graduate school go directly to the department we studied in. The school funded all of our graduate tuition and provided paid jobs. 
Earmarking the money to them means the university is required to add it to the department budget. This allows the department to funnel it to programs that support current graduate students.

We also choose specific places for our undergrad donations to be directed.  Never to the university as a whole.

We know the $ gets where we intended it to because those departments write us separately to thank us.[/quote]

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