it always puzzles me when people give 10x millions or 100x millions to a school like harvard when that school and others like yale have so much already.(yes I know it is the donors money to give as they please)
if you had 100 million dollars to give to a school which school would you give it to? why that school and for what purpose would you request they use the money?
I would give it to my alma mater so they could throw lots of merit money at high stats kids and rise in the rankings 
I would give it to my alma mater, Northeastern University, to endow stipends for unpaid internships/coops in the humanities and social sciences.
fall girl I like that.
I would give the money to upgrade STEMS’s at my school and scholarships from stem students (full ride)
also I would make sure freshman dorm bathrooms were gutted and renovated to the 21st century!
tomsrofboston
a better use at NE would be free
Au Bon Pain for all students enrolled full time in school.
give me Au Bon Pain anytime over Starbucks!
@zobroward Wouldn’t you specify that your 100 million gift go to renovate, remodel and build dorms so that all rooms would be singles?
My request would be that I have the right to call admissions and tell them to accept someone, perhaps multiple someones, each year. This is not an attempt at nepotism/legacy stuff, rather, I have met too many kids in my life that I know could do well, but for tons of reasons beyond their control lack the HS records to make sure they get in. Of course it is assumed I have the wealth to pay the tuition of these students as well.
Donating money isn’t as easy as it seems. Look at what happened to the money Zukerberg gave to a school in Newark, NJ. Many millions later they got nothing to show for.
madison805…yes to the singles! (the bathroom thing while needed was a bit of humor)
but since I am 99,999.900…dollars short of the 100,000,000 it is just pie in the sky stuff.
my 100 dollars could buy 3 or 4 new toilet seats I guess.
It wouldn’t even buy one for the military, they have paid $400 for a single toilet seat.
I would endow my local public district with monies for arts teachers and field trips/enrichment
or if it has to be a college…
I would endow a public state system school (example Shippensburg, Kutztown) with full scholarship money for students — lots of them ---- with a hs B gpa. I think there are so many “average” students who could really benefit from an affordable college education at a solid but unheralded school. 100 mill at a huge school is barely a blip on their screen or a dent in tuition.
Me, no to singles. Being mix-matched in a dorm is one of the things I like, and who needs their own bathroom?
I’d put a chunk into travel programs and internships, including local opportunities to work with community programs. When we give to the kids’ alma mater, we earmark for finaid (the school was very generous to us.) But, yeah, we’re well short of that sort of money.
If I had 100 million dollars to give, I would simply do not give. I would spend it on my family.
I think I’d give $100 million to S1’s alma mater so that its reputation goes up significantly. It’s a good school that, IMO, doesn’t get the respect or national awareness that it deserves.
I would spend it on programs, both high school and college, which support and nurture twice-exceptional students - e.g., learning disabilities paired with gifted abilities.
@Miamidap what would you buy your family for $100M?
I would setup a “QuestBridge-like” organization, catering exclusively to STEM students but a wider portfolio of schools - privates and publics.
I’d pay the medical school tuition for those with the highest GPAs and MCAT scores.
" I would give it to my alma mater, Northeastern University, to endow stipends for unpaid internships/coops in the humanities and social sciences. "
NEU rejected my daughter last year , but she plans on reapplying as a transfer student…to the College of Social Science and Humanities. 
It has the program she wants and one of the best in the country !
I would give money to help the poor, the sick, the hungry, refugees in war-torn countries, etc (like I do now, but to the tune of a few thousand, not millions) before I gave to a first-world college.