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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Multiple Pritzkers went to Northwestern for either undergrad or law school, which also happens to be where they've donated the most. Arguably the two most notable "Pritzkers" of late, Jay and JB Pritzker, both have degrees from Northwestern.

Two of the Ryans' kids have double degrees from the law and business schools.

The PP upthread doesn't have his/her facts right. And in any case, their line of thinking is flawed and doesn't have any weight. Also, it's strange that they would do so much research into the alumni of a school that they deem irrelevant. Seems more like the behavior of a spurned ex than anything else.[/quote]

I don't ever see any Harvard, Stanford, or Columbia alums making a big kerfuffle on this forum when someone made a multi-million dollar donation to their alma mater...

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-biggest-private-donations-to-universities-by-individuals-2019-5

Except for Northwestern folks desperate for some attention... do you really need to start a new post to announce this to the entire DCUM community? [/quote]

Not the OP, but how do you even know that the person who shared this news is a Northwestern alum?

Secondly, you are so desperate to prove that Northwestern is not at the level of HYPSM (which, again, seems like a strange mission to be on since no one has ever claimed that), so yes, a donation of that magnitude is more noteworthy than it would be at a Harvard or a Stanford. I recall there being a big kerfuffle for similar donations at places like UChicago and Johns Hopkins.[/quote]

PP, as I said, every time when some non-HYPSM school gets brought up on DCUM, there will always be a swarth of lousy HYPSM aspirants on DCUM who rush to attack that school. It has happened to Columbia, UChicago, Johns Hopkins, and now they're turning up the heat on Northwestern. Who's next? Penn? Duke? Caltech?[/quote]

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