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[quote=Anonymous]That'll never happen.  What's the point of those big donors donating if not to secure spots for their offspring?  They'll take their money elsewhere, which the colleges/universities will not allow.

I had my work-study in the Alumni Contributions department one semester and it's all organized by levels.  The elite donors, those giving 7 figures or more, can only be contacted by certain people and when those donors call in or need something, boom, it was done ASAP (learned that my second semester work-study).  The lower tier donors are parsed out between those who never give, those who give the same amount each year, those whose giving went up, and those whose giving went down.  The first list you had to hit up aggressively were those who gave less than year than in past.  There was a script to ask why without being blunt and all "why did you only give $500 this year instead of $1000?"  Then you moved on to those who give the same amount, then those who gave more, and lastly those who never donate.

Plus, big donors use it as leverage in other aspects of life.  One big donor at my former university had no kids of his own.  He did, however, have business associates whose kids wanted to go there.  So, he'd make a call, put in a good word, the kids would get in and then he'd close a big business deal.        [/quote]

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