GRADUATE STUDENT

A status label under $5.9 million

$5,871,698 is the occupation-level dollar total. 17,679 is the itemization count. 583 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $332 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $10,072 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 30 itemizations per donor record. Seventeen thousand-plus lines from 583 donor records is a high-repeat pattern in a limited headcount. Mean dollars per donor record sit higher than the student label might suggest; means are not medians.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $332 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

A few large itemizations can lift dollars per donor record while most lines remain smaller. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no stipend-versus-family-money split. FEC.gov does not explain who paid.

Student versus graduate student as occupation text

STUDENT, GRADUATE STUDENT, and PHD CANDIDATE are different occupation keys. A donor who files STUDENT in one cycle and GRADUATE STUDENT in another is split across occupation pages.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals GRADUATE STUDENT after indexing. STUDENT, PHD STUDENT, and GRAD STUDENT remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to GRADUATE STUDENT.

Questions

How much have graduate student donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list GRADUATE STUDENT sum to $5,871,698 across 17,679 contributions and 583 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is STUDENT included in the graduate student total?

No. STUDENT is a separate occupation string. This page covers GRADUATE STUDENT only: $5,871,698, 17,679 contributions, and 583 donors. Combining them would invent a combined student total the packet does not contain. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Why is the average per donor record relatively high?

Dividing $5,871,698 by 583 donor records yields about $10,072. That is a mean, not a median. A few large lines can lift the average. The file still has 17,679 itemizations, about 30 per record. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

Where can I see the underlying FEC rows?

Open the GRADUATE STUDENT occupation page for the indexed list, then verify on FEC.gov. The occupation total is $5,871,698. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.