<p>The Development Office is the part of the organization responsible for fundraising.</p>
<p>I think “development” admissions are strategic admissions intended to maximize FUTURE donations. If your family GAVE a lot of money generations ago, I don’t know if you are a development admit or not. It is more that they think your family WILL give if you get in or will STOP giving if you don’t.</p>
<p>There was a big-time development admit in my class. It was something of a head-scratcher for everyone who knew him until a few years after we graduated when one of the residential houses was renamed after his family.</p>