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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Knowing an staff or faculty member, no matter how high in rank, will not help imho. My husband was close enough to the general counsel of a T20 school where my son was applying that we were able to have lunch with her during my son's official tour. We never asked for her help because it would put her in an awkward position and she never offered. He ultimately got in, but he also had very strong stats and was coming out of a private feeder high school. We also had the help of a major donor of that school as well.[b] You are better off knowing a major donor than an employee honestly.[/b][/quote]

As someone who has basically my whole family employed in academia, I wholeheartedly second this. Being friends with a professor at Princeton or a Dean at Cal Tech will not help you. They don’t know your kid, they know YOU, so they can’t write a meaningful letter of recommendation.

A donor on the other hand has development officers at their beck and call. They know exactly how much influence they can trade for their level of monetary contribution.
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Or perhaps both kids got in because dad was successful in private equity.

This is correct. We have a friend whose kids both got into Penn because friend worked at a hedgefund where founder was a major donor. The founder sent his kids to Harvard and was willing to write letters of support for our friend's kids.[/quote][/quote]

Dad works in IT for the hedge fund but for more than 20 years. He is not in private equity. [/quote]

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