<p>there is an extremely annoying girl in my grade who keeps running her mouth about being a development admit, but she still has the stats to get in. i was wondering how much money one would have to donate to be a "development admit," because honestly i am not sure she has that kind of cash. a general figure would be great, thanks for any help</p>
<p>To Yale? Masses. Their endowment is so big that anything an individual (apart from billionaires) could give would just be a drop in the ocean. If I were to hazard a guess… perhaps 10 million would give you a bit of a boost, but by no means guarantee admission.</p>
<p>That is a complete guess…</p>
<p>thanks but she is talking bout whatever ivy she “picks” (junior) any idea on how it would differ? thanks for the help though</p>
<p>This girl sounds like she has absolutely no idea what is going on. To think that she could donate that much money is slightly obnoxious. I would hazard a guess to say that if they were only going to donate one time then it would be around the $10,000,000 mark but if they have been donating for years then it could be a lesser amount.</p>
<p>Well, obviously to schools with smaller endowments you would need to give less. So, to Harvard (26 Billion) or Yale (16 Billion) a donation of 10 mil is tiny. To Brown (2 Billion) that 10 million is slightly more significant.</p>
<p>It is still tiny though…</p>
<p>Double digit millions would do it, but before the student is accetped. The IRS can look at the “donation” unfavorably if there was any apparent “benefit” to the donation, it would be considered non-tax dedcuctable, increasing their payment to the University by 35%.</p>
<p>The schools all target students whose parents bring in 1-2 M per year in income for future donations ( and these students all pay full price no aid of course) but ARE not recruited “favorably”.</p>
<p>Perhaps if you said " I bet the IRS would be interested to hear your parents were making a “donation” and expecting a “return”. The IRS has a 800 tipster number you could hand her…</p>
<p>This is purely anecdotal third-hand information, but it might help you anyway.</p>
<p>Apparently a girl in my friend’s class applied to Yale with a smattering of Cs and Ds and sup-par extracurriculars. Her father donated $1 million to the school; Yale said–“it’s not enough.” Dad donated $10 million. Girl got in.</p>
<p>Hopefully for every one of these under-par developmental admits they let in a few hard-working poor kids like me? ;)</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s legal to do that-- the kid would have to have at least stats in the ballpark for admission, and the “donation” would be kind of like their hook. Handing over a cool 10M for your admittedly mediocre daughter is pushing it, and I don’t think anything short of curing cancer would make up for a 2.0 or so average.</p>