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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][i][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^Splitting hairs they clearly do belong.[/quote]
Not at all, Bowdoin has not consistently been ranked at the top like Williams and Amherst. It has worse student quality and ED2. It’s a good school, just not at the level of AWS[/quote]

Average USNWR rankings over the last 35 or so years

Williams
Amherst
Swarthmore
Pomona*
Wellesley*
Bowdoin
Middlebury
Carleton

Ranked by size of endowment size

Williams
Amherst
Swarthmore
Pomona*
Wellesley*
Bowdoin
Middlebury
Carleton

Get the correlation? There is no difference among any of these schools except for the size of their bag.[/quote]
35 or so years? Where is the citation for this? U.S. News rankings have been around far longer than that.[/quote]
US news ranking is continuously built off of endowment per student for LACs. There's really no tangible reason Williams would be number 1 every year for decades.[/quote]

Sort of, for universities they use endowment per student. For the LACs they calculate a 'student resources' number which is similar but not quite the same. The result is pretty much the same though. It is a large enough factor that for the top schools it is the decider.

It really gets the WASP crowd worked up but there is no difference in these schools except the size of their endowments.[/quote]

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