It's even more brazen than I had imagined. It appears as though at least some spots are open to the highest potential bidders: >One chain of emails revealed q

It's even more brazen than I had imagined. It appears as though at least some spots are open to the highest potential bidders: >One chain of emails revealed quite how calculating Harvard can be in these sensitive matters. Offering Fitzsimmons advice on a potential student whose family had given $8.7 million, a Harvard fundraising official said the family had been generous in the past, but that more recent years had been ‘challenging’. The officer added bleakly: ‘Going forward, I don’t see a significant opportunity for further major gifts. [Name redacted] had an art collection which conceivably could come our way. More probably it will go to the [name redacted] museum.’