New College Ranking

Dad_of_3
Sat, 04 May 2013 15:20:58 +0000

On re-reading, it’s gifts PER student not BY. I had initially read it as meaning that the median donation BY a Caltech alum was 59 grand and I thought this would be huge even if it was cumulative for 10 years.

I’m still not clear what exactly the figure represents, but it appears to be related to how much the donations of all the past alums works out when measured against how many current students the college has. If my interpretation is correct, if Caltech suddenly doubled its enrollment, the figure would drop to 30 grand assuming donations remained the same. How exactly he factored in median amounts as opposed to averages if this is the case is another puzzle.