Help! need donation strategy to ensure admission

ClassicRockerDad
Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:28:39 +0000

It’s about much more than a one time payment. This further clouds the quid pro quo issue.



Exactly. IMO, if the donation and the admission are “linked” as the OP intends, than it’s a quid pro quo. If I’m Princeton, sitting on a $14.8B endowment, I don’t touch this guy with a ten foot pole and risk the scenario I’ve outlined for a mere $2M.

Maybe his best approach would be to donate $10M to a range of organizations and get in the development database as a known “heavy hitter”.