<p>hahaha this made me laugh…i think i read somewhere on the rice forum that someone taped a dollar to the box on the signature page, but that’s the only time i’ve heard of it, and even then i think the person meant it as a joke lol</p>
<p>There is nothing naive about this thread.</p>
<p>o &$#%, maybe that’s why I got deferred by Duke ED this year. That stupid Jackson ruined me, I should have used Hamilton instead.</p>
<p>it’s not supposed to be naive, it’s disturbing.</p>
<p>what do you mean by more money than is “required”? Subtly write a check for $85 dollars instead of $70 for the application fee?</p>
<p>I think OP meant attaching real paper currency.</p>
<p>I think you are turning this into a comedy</p>
<p>Revolution: you’ll have to excuse the allegations of naivete but if you’re suggesting that you insert $100 rather than the $80 application fee to get some preferential treatment, you don’t have a firm grasp of how organizations work. This isn’t the corner store where the boss pockets the extra $5 that ends up in the till at the end of the night.</p>
<p>The thousands of applications and their fees are handled routinely by lots of support staff with protocols in place. An overpayment would be seen as a clerical anomaly. That’s all. Why would anyone in a decisionmaking role even be bothered with something like that? </p>
<p>Hopefully this answers your question?</p>
<p>If the OP question is real, the answer is that it would be stupid. </p>
<p>As to really rich people in general, having parents who built a dorm, athletic center, business school building, engineering school building etc, would have a huge leg up (if they were at the minimum levels stats wise for the school, assuming top 20 type schools). More bang at less selective schools. I don’t think a C student with 550’s on each portion of the SAT’s would make it at a top school today, even if Mom & or Dad built a building. I also think people who were going to give with that intention would check in advance before handing over $20,000,000 for a building.</p>
<p>Thanks that answered my question but JFK junior wasn’t a genius but he got accepted because of his ancestors.</p>
<p>hikids: Are you kidding? A $20m donation to harvard, would easily get a C student with a 550 on the SATs in; no question about it. Money talks!</p>
<p>I may be wrong, but Tommy Hillfigers and Ralph Lauren’s kids went to Ivys and according to thei reality show back in the day, their grades were average. I guess that answers it</p>
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<p>The MTV program Rich Girls is based on Ally Hilfiger and her gal pal Jamie Gleicher (who got admitted to Barnard and always said she was admitted to an Ivy because of Barnard’s affiliation with Columbia).</p>
<p>[Ally</a> Hilfiger and Jamie Gleicher to star in MTV’s ‘Rich Girls’ beginning October 28 - Reality TV World - News, information, episode summaries, message boards, chat and games for unscripted television programs](<a href=“http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/ally-hilfiger-and-jamie-gleicher-star-in-mtv-rich-girls-beginning-october-28-1866.php]Ally”>Ally Hilfiger and Jamie Gleicher to star in MTV's 'Rich Girls' beginning October 28)</p>
<p>Ralph Lauren’s kids went to Duke where he donated quite a bit of $$. The story was covered on 20/20 The Privilege of Education</p>
<p>[ABC</a> News: The Privilege of Education](<a href=“The Privilege of Education - ABC News”>The Privilege of Education - ABC News)</p>
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<p>I know a girl whose parents, while worth a few hundred million, only paid about $1 million to Harvard and got her in. Then again, she was pretty well qualified and went to the best prep school in the country, so I don’t think she needed the $10 million push a C-student at public school would.</p>