[TrumpCard]

The data is too murky to be useful. 

If you had data on Ivy+, that would not control for the donations and other valuable commitments made by the alumni parents. Presumably those Ivy+ alumni were not making donations and volunteering for Stanford for years and years. 

The only way to get a true picture of the importance of legacy/donor status in admissions is to get a candid disclosure from the university’s leadership. 

I always assumed that bare alumni status, without a big donation history, meant zilch, but that’s mostly because there’s no use in getting my hopes up and I’m not going to re-order my philanthropic priorities based on speculation that doing so might benefit me or my kids.

[TrumpCard]

The data is too murky to be useful. 

If you had data on Ivy+, that would not control for the donations and other valuable commitments made by the alumni parents. Presumably those Ivy+ alumni were not making donations and volunteering for Stanford for years and years. 

The only way to get a true picture of the importance of legacy/donor status in admissions is to get a candid disclosure from the university’s leadership. 

I always assumed that bare alumni status, without a big donation history, meant zilch, but that’s mostly because there’s no use in getting my hopes up and I’m not going to re-order my philanthropic priorities based on speculation that doing so might benefit me or my kids.