<p>Bucks County PA gets huge gift. Barbara Dodd Anderson "Buffett"</p>
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** Officials at George School, a prep school in Bucks County, Pa., were reeling from the contribution, believed to be one of the largest ever to a secondary school.
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<a href="http://www.georgeschool.org/explore.asp?content=380%5B/url%5D">http://www.georgeschool.org/explore.asp?content=380</a></p>
<p>This will have interesting implications for the Bunkel Index. I wonder what sort of boost this gives them with their overall rankings.</p>
<p>Wow! That's the kind of donation development offices dream of. It will be interesting to see how it changes the school. I think Quakers appreciate simplicity.</p>
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That's the kind of donation development offices dream of.
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You got that right! But I'm sure they worked very hard cultivating that gift. And will have to work equally hard stewarding it.</p>
<p>My daughter was accepted to George School but we were concerned about the science program. Their freshman class at the time studied Hydrology as the basis for all of the sciences.</p>
<p>Given that the Bunkel Index will no doubt assign a new endowment value immediately of $128.5m ( in addition to the existing quotient of 77m), while not taking into account the "annuity" aspect of the gift, who knows how further skewed the BI will become?</p>
<p>Further proof that WBTY Indices ( which never makes these errors) is superior.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that Bunkel will show a spike given the size of the gift (138.5 birds in the bush are worth more than none in the hand). Still, to be perfectly honest, I can't say whether it will instantly attribute the entire gift to the current year...though I doubt it. If you're ABSOLUTELY SURE they will do that and not just using falsehoods to persuade people that WBTY is better than Bunkel, I'll have to take your word for it.</p>
<p>But the REAL reason WBTY Indices won't make these school ranking errors is that they can't make them. </p>
<p>As you well know, WBTY Indices are updated quarterly. With the subscription service option, just $8.99 per month for individual licensees, the Bunkel Index updates its rankings WEEKLY. So while there's deafening silence from WBTY Indices as to the impact of this gift, Bunkel is at least going to be doing something when the Friday afternoon updates are released for downloading through their secure FTP servers.</p>
<p>Thanks for making my point. Bunkel updates weekly, which is really a useless exercise (and probably accounts for at least some of the outrageous fees). Some dope in Altoona (who has their offices in Altoona PA?!) will see this news on the PSW and just blindly input it. WBTY is much more careful and thorough, hence fewer errors and a more reliable source.</p>
<p>That sounds nice, but we all know that the REAL reason WBTY won't assign much weight to this gift is because it relies on subjective measures that are heavily biased towards TSAO schools. Nice try.</p>
<p>Meh -- subjective, objective, that's all just semantics.</p>
<p>But to stoop to accusing the good, publc service oriented people of the WTBY Indices, some of whom are personal friends of mine, of being in the pocket of the TSAO Group is unseemly at best. You owe those hard working people in Greenwich an apology.</p>
<p>Right after I read this thread, my dad randomly mentioned that this lady lives near us. Very weird.</p>
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<p>Find out where and go over there and see if she'll adopt you. If you don't ask, you'll never know...!</p>