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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps the town or W&M isn't for everyone, but somehow W&M is in top 3 for graduation rate and is top for alumni giving rate among national public universities.  Among all colleges, it is number 6 for happiest students in Princeton Review surveys.  [/quote]
The alumni giving rate is more a function of W&M being a far smaller college compared to other public universities and having the wealthiest students (parent's wealth) of any public university.[/quote]

You are going out of your way to be dismissive.  There are many public universities of a similar size to W&M.  The top 20 national universities in alumni giving according to USNWR are:

Princeton, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, USC, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Penn, MIT, Duke, Harvard, Northwestern, Brown, Georgetown, [b]William & Mary[/b], Columbia, Stanford, Rice, Villanova, Yale, Caltech.

W&M is the only public.  I would argue it a pretty good list to be on.[/quote]

W&M is about 7000 students. How many public universities are of that size?
That list is certainly a good one to be on - also rather impressive of USC considering they are far larger undergraduate population than the others; but again USC is a school of very wealthy students. Regardless, I was responding to the person I quoted who said W&M was the top among public universities. I'm pointing out why thats the case: size and wealthy student population. [/quote]

Unhappy alumni don't tend to give back.  [/quote]
And alumni with student debt because their parents weren't able to put them through college without loans don't tend to give back either. [b]And large universities need far more alumni to give back to make it into a list based on percentages.[/b] [/quote]

Well then, they can solicit it from their larger alumni base.  Unless of course those alumni aren't happy. . .
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The parents of the median student at W&M makes $180k. At UVA its $140k despite being known as a wealthy, preppy school. All the other public universities are lower. I'm sure you can understand the effect of wealthier alumni base (based on parental income/wealth) on alumni donations. [/quote]

In top 1% families, UVA is second only to Michigan among public universities according to NYT.  [/quote]

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