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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because W&M is small and has wealthy students. Comparing its giving rate to Michigan, Berkeley, UNC, etc. which are 3-5 times its size is not reasonable. [/quote]

You are kind of like William Barr trying to intercept the Mueller report and put his spin on it before anyone else can read it and evaluate it for for themselves.  I wrote the original statement, which is factually correct based on the information in USNWR.  It just said W&M has the highest annual giving rate of all national public universities.  To put it in a broader context, where people can form their own views of significance, here are USNWR national universities ranked in order by annual giving rate.  People should take from it what they will:

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, Vanderbilt, Cornell

There is research out there on the predictors of alumni giving rates.  Alumni satisfaction is correlated with giving rates, which is the reason why I cited it.  Among institutional characteristics, the most significant in an analysis of over 200 universities was:  Graduation rate; First year retention rate; % of students on campus (if you look at the list above, you can see many of these have a very high percentage of undergraduates housed on campus -- 94% in the case of Princeton); tuition price (positive correlation meaning higher price schools - typically private - have higher giving rates); student to faculty ratio (negative correlation); Full time student population (negative correlation).

So one of your points, full time student population was significant, but behind the variables listed before it.

There are other analyses on alumni characteristics.  The most significant there appeared to be age, their income, two income family, and number of children (negative correlation).

I can't believe I've written this much on something that was about six words long.
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