<p>wat are developmental candidates for college (i saw someone put them into the legacies/atheletes/urm category)</p>
<p>Developmental candidates help develop the endowment, in other words, they have enough money to potentially make a significant (8 figure) donation to the school. If a college can snag one of these kids, whether fully qualified or not (and maybe more so if they are somewhat under-qualified), they fiigure mommy and daddy will eventually make big donations to the school. We are talking about 10's of millions.</p>