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[quote=Anonymous]You're confusing Development with Legacy.

- Development -

If you want to buy your way in, you need at least a 10M donation, AND a relationship with a Board member. Yes, that sort of relationship can be started and sustained by regular donations, BUT you need to make yourself known to the Development Office and signal your intent to donate large sums, and find a way to meet and foster a relationship with important people on the Board.

If you donate small change every year, you will remain entirely meaningless to the admissions officers and it's all going to be money down the drain.

- Legacy -

No one knows which Ivy League and assimilated will continue to give preference to alumni kids in the future, but right now, the mere fact that your child has a parent who attended this school at the undergrad level will give them a small boost, in the following scenario: all other factors being equal (grades, test scores, extra-curricular achievements, essays, etc), the one who gets in will be a legacy kid. Since there are more high-achieving kids than there are seats, this is not negligible.

Even if you donate ZERO, your child still gets that small consideration.[/quote]

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