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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a Brown alum and DH went to Amherst. We are UMC and have a very bright 7 yo. DH’s alma mater has ended legacy admissions but mine hasn’t, and while I have given off and on in the past I was thinking it would make sense to make sure we’re making an annual donation to my school to help give DC a leg up in case he wants to apply someday. DH is dead set against this and thinks I am being ridiculous. I freely admit that I probably am, I just wouldn’t want to have not done something that could have helped DC. Thoughts?[/quote]

My husband and his father went to a not to be names Ivy. They have donated more than $9M over the years (25 years). And guess what? My son with a 1560 SAT, 3.9 us GPA and amazing ECs was waitlisted and never got off the waitlist. Stop this nonsense. If $9M didnt help with a qualified kid, forget about donating a few thousand dollars. Needless to say, the donations have stopped with a nice letter to the development office.

Kid was accepted to another Ivy through RD process…[/quote]

Then you did something really wrong. Is your kid a jerk? Development should have made the connection but did you make it easy and nudge them (with that level of donation you should have a contact in development). Something is missing. Be honest with your self.[/quote]

Nothing is missing. Grandfather has donated $7M before my husband took control of his company and continued the planned donations. Grandfather was involved with alumni affairs until the day he died. Father took over company and continued the exact same process.Very involved with alumni affairs. yes of course we had a development relationship. Nothing was missing. Development was fully aware that kid was applying. You can think anything you want, but reality is that it did not help. It even came with I’m sorry email from development. This was 2 years ago. I’m willing to bet that if this was TODAY, the school would have admitted him right away given the Trumpiam problems they are facing…[/quote]

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