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[quote=Anonymous]And re: endowment performance (which really has nothing to do with quality of education at this level)

Bowdoin beats Williams on every single timeframe

As of June 30, 2025, Bowdoin’s endowment generated three-, five-, ten-, and twenty-year annualized returns of 8.8 percent, 13.5 percent, 11.0 percent, and 10.7 percent, respectively. Long-term returns place Bowdoin in the top 1 percent of all college and university endowments tracked by Cambridge Associates.

The [Williams] endowment generated a higher return [11.7% in 2025] than last year, when it delivered a return of 10.2 percent — about $355.4 million in 2025 dollars —  following declines in 2022 and 2023. The highest total value of the endowment was $4.2 billion, which the Investment Office reported in 2021 after a 49.9 percent return. The 10-year annual return at the conclusion of this fiscal year is 9.4 percent, an increase from last year’s 9.2 percent.

Really no clue where all these wild assertions are coming from, especially from someone with no personal experience at Williams OR Bowdoin ha[/quote]

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