How much influence can a donor recommendation have..

Mwfan1921
Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:17:14 +0000

Assessing the student’s potential fit is first important step, as I said in my post above, #8.

However, I do think posters are being somewhat naive as to how development admits work. OP stated this potential recommender has buildings (plural) named after him. @skieurope with all due respect, this donor has no reason to call the director of admissions. At many schools, an 8-figure (maybe 9, depending on the buildings) donor has a direct line to the President, Trustees, Development Office, and other high ranking admin officials. People in all those roles recommend applicants to admissions, every year. Those recommended applicants have higher than average rates of admission, and we got to see an interesting glimpse of it with the revelation of the existence of the Dean’s Interest List at Harvard, via the lawsuit data.