Johns Hopkins gave him a chance and it paid off for him and for Hopkins

Parents Forum
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<p>Bloomberg has donated $1.1 billion to Johns Hopkins so far. I found this NYT article very interesting especially this part:</p>

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The relationship between Mr. Bloomberg and Hopkins is, much like the college admissions process, the product of happenstance.</p>

<p>In high school, Mr. Bloomberg worked at an electronics company whose owner happened to have a doctorate from the university. She urged him to apply, despite his mediocre transcript.</p>

<p>“Let’s be serious — they took a chance on me,” Mr. Bloomberg said.</p>

<p>At Hopkins, the boyish-looking Mr. Bloomberg, whose high school classmates branded him “argumentative” in a class book, blossomed into a charismatic figure, eager to organize those around him. An engineering major, he persuaded his fraternity brothers to pay for a chef to replace a chaotic dinnertime routine, and he doled out assignments to lab mates. “He was like the project manager, at 19 years old,” Jim Kelly, a classmate, said.

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<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/nyregion/at-1-1-billion-bloomberg-is-top-university-donor-in-us.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/nyregion/at-1-1-billion-bloomberg-is-top-university-donor-in-us.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>He graduated in 1964, so presumably he started around 1960.</p>

<p>What was JHU’s admissions selectivity like in 1960?</p>

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<p>This is a wonderful story and a testament to the generosity of Mayor Bloomberg, much of which, as with many of his fellow philanthropists, goes unreported. Terrific for all those at JHU and those who will benefit from the education of all of those affected grads in the future.</p>

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<p>The Baltimore Sun this morning said that he started donating $5 a year when he first graduated. In the 1980s, he gave his first million. These facts were also in the linked article.</p>