apologize for the tangent but my cousin and her husband (both asian american, both harvard alumni) chose to move back to our hometown in Seattle so they could send their kids to lakeside, the same school bill gates went to.

i assume to increase their chances of getting into harvard. back of the envelope math works out to be $715k for their 5-12 education which may be more bang for your buck but also the college entrance strategy is not so much based on donor contribution and more on target school selection.