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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My observations/thoughts as I look though the list.

1. One or two big checks can really turn propel a school upward. For example, both McPherson in KS and Catawba in NC now have A grades after a donor changed their fates. McPherson is now ranked above Wake, Dartmouth, and Grinnell. Catawba is right between MIT and Emory.

2. Since the USNWR list is so closely aligned with $, I wonder if schools like McPherson or Catawba will start to appear on USNWR national rankings.

3. Since there's some unpredictability in where future existentially-large gifts will go (who'd have expected McPherson to get a billion dollars?), it makes predicting the future a little hard.

4. The religious schools are doing quite well. A number of the schools high on the list are *extremely* religious, and notably in a way that intersects with politics. For example, a fair number appear on the "worst" list for LGBTQ-friendliness as ranked by Campus Pride.

5. It would be interesting to compare some of these religio-political schools to previous Forbes rankings to get a sense of whether the culture wars/political polarization are infusing new levels of cash into these very religious schools.

6. Despite the gleeful hand-wringing from some DCUMers, nearly all of the top SLACs are doing great. Looks like 65 or so (at least?) of the USNWR national LACs have range from B to A+, and a bunch of regional ones are in that range too.

7. There was a recent post about hidden gems, and Trinity University in TX came up a bunch. This school, which almost never gets talked about here, is graded A, which seems to reinforce this.

8. Nice to see some HBCUs doing really well - Johnson C. Smith has an A+, Tougaloo has an A.

9. [b]There are at least three regional women's schools that are doing very well. Stephens College in MO, Hollins in VA, and St. Mary's of Indiana. That seems potentially interesting? [/b]

10. A number on this list that are extremely niche. For example, Maharisi University in Iowa (B) is the school associated with transcendental meditation and ayurvedic medicine. I mean, okay.

11. I wish there were a way to model where schools would appear if the market had done slightly differently in those years. 
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Hollins received $75mm from an anonymous alumna. The largest gift ever received by a women’s college.[/quote]

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