<p>But that’s kind of what my question was intended to get at. I mean, obviously if your last name is Rockefeller or Gates, they’re going to know that you’re a “development candidate,” or if the parent is the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. I put those people in the “could donate a building” category. PelicanDad’s post seemed to suggest, though, that it’s still an admissions hook even if someone had a lot less to give than a whole building. That’s the kind of thing that would be a lot less obvious. I know from the private school that my kids go to now that it’s not always the parents who you’d think that give a lot to the school’s annual fund. So how do the schools suss that out in advance, or do they not bother with it in the admissions process once you get past the Rockefeller/Gates of the world?</p>