Agree that in SoCal USC alums are rabid – mainly when they meet UCLA alums.
As a former A&M student, I agree on that one too. Though we have donated more to DH’s grad school UCSB, which is where we still live. Donating to the local college gives us more community pay-back.
Wow, Caltech is really an outlier in the Forbes 10-year median donation column! At $53K it’s still significantly higher than #2 MIT at $45K. I’ve read that a number of Caltech’s donors, including big donors, are not alumni and do not have kids attending. Some of those donors may have been counted.