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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another thing that is considered is how much money the family has donated. Legacy without donations doesn't help as much as the kid that has his family name on a dorm, library, sports complex etc. [/quote]

You're talking about development cases, if the family still has its money. This gets you bumped into a different type of admissions path from the simple legacy admissions path.

Legacy without the building can still help, as long as the parent has a track record of giving $100 or whatever over many years. Or participating in alumni events like interviewing applicants. On the other hand, it doesn't help to give $100 starting in your kid's junior year. Colleges are looking to see if the family has an attachment to the school. It's this attachment, rather than simply being the offspring of an alumn, is what helps.

Of course if will help if you're the sort of kid whose family has donated a building. But these are very rare cases, because there just aren't so many families who donated a building 50 years ago, because there are only so many buildings.

The attitude towards legacies and development cases also varies among universities. Harvard doesn't need your $100,000 as much as some other colleges. And some universities love their alumns more than others. All of which SAM2 would have to adjust for somehow.[/quote]

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