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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private colleges with subpar endowments may drop next. They can’t throw that much money at students because their endowment is pretty small for student size. Seems like a downward spiral. [/quote]

Yes. I do not think this is relevant to Syracuse at all as it will be fine, but for smaller, less selective schools, one has to be very careful of the death spiral. Where enrollment starts to decline and then people start to get apprehensive that the school might be having trouble and don't want to go there for fear that it will close, which then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Which is also why I generally hate threads like this and think that people need to be really, really careful about rumor mongering. Because most of the people who start threads declaring the pending death of a school have zero idea what they are talking about and that is dangerous. Yes - schools are closing and it is helpful that people know about this and are aware of the signs. But the intelligentsia (note my sarcasm) of DCUM are generally not the people to do this.[/quote]

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