<p>Is it helpful to know a member of a Board of Trustees for a college? Would that be a useful connection?</p>
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<p>uhhh of course.</p>
<p>How much does it help if someone is no longer a trustee, but still is a very active alumnus and has recently endowed a scholarship?</p>
<p>this is 100% irrelevent. apply, use what ever connection you have, it has absolutely no effect on you even if someone could quantize the help it gives you</p>