If you had applied in the same year as the big donner, then you would have had a better chance of admission if you were a superior student. Yes, the school would have been embarrassed to have accepted a marginal student and not the superior student.
If you had applied in the same year as the big donner, then you would have had a better chance of admission if you were a superior student. Yes, the school would have been embarrassed to have accepted a marginal student and not the superior student.