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[quote=Anonymous]Ms University Developer,

In your vast experience in university development when a child or grandchild has gained admission to your institution was there ever any relationship between the admission decision and knowledge this applicant is a relation to a big time financial donor?

In other words, are the Directors of Admission and gang [b]blind[/b] in the process of candidate selection to variables such as relation to big time donors (or other variables including where parents went to school, parents' occupations, knowledge about whether any other relations attended the school, etc, etc)?

These schools have large data bases populated by information on the application with links to alumni databases and the like.  Have you ever taken a look at the candidate's application folder?  There's quite a bit of information there (some 'juicy') besides the applicant's application?

Do you actually believe these admission decisions are trully blind (unbiased) to this information and data?

I what was in my folder some 30-40 years ago scribbled on a piece of paper by an AD.  "Dad looks like  ____?  ... Accept"

I saw this  much later, after I had graduated.

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