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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would admissions or financial aid contact the development office if they thought an applicant's family would make potential donors?[/quote]
Good question. My understanding, previously, was that no, it doesn't work that way. For most universities, if an applicant was supported by a big donor, the donor would get in touch with their development office contact, which would then contact admissions. That would only be relevant for [i]prior/current[/i] donors to the university

That before I understood that there are databases that may identify potential donors at various levels.[b] I am not familiar with DonorSearch and similar databases, but it seems plausible that with the right tools, one could run a simple search on a list of names. [/b]On the other hand, universities get thousands of apps every year.

So, to answer your question, it sounds plausible that a subset of applicants could be searched. Such as, for applicants who did not apply for financial aid at need-aware schools, or for applicants whose parents have a graduate degree or meet some other combination of criteria.

Separately, I am aware that development offices do this annually for, say, all new parents who didn't apply for need-based aid - seems like a fairly secretive process but that's what I was told when I got a development call when my oldest was a freshman. We turned up. I really want to know about applicants, however.[/quote]
It's right here on Slate's website. Slate is the application review platform used by most colleges.

"Technolutions has partnered with DonorSearch to quickly import screened prospect and donor data into Slate. The method to screen records involves two processes:

Exporting data from Slate and uploading to DonorSearch
Exporting screened records from DonorSearch and uploading to Slate"
https://knowledge.technolutions.net/docs/donorsearch-research-integration

Now, this doesn't mean that colleges actually use this feature on the list of applicants. But, it looks like it might be realistically possible to do so.[/quote]

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