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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Michigan is not a "commuter school" the way George Mason or Fordham are.[/quote]

PP is desperate to paint Michigan as mediocre. It's pathetic.

Hey PP -- at Georgetown, most upperclassmen live off-campus. Is Georgetown a commuter school too?  :lol: [/quote]

It is another school that can't come close to creating a similar residential environment to most of the Ivy League and many other schools including LACs.  If you look at Georgetown, although it is a fine school, it has a relatively low alumni giving rate and endowment compared to the schools that are more residential.  I think there is a correlation.[/quote]

Yet Michigan has massive alumni loyalty. I'm married to a Michigan alum and the loyalty is almost cultish. Michigan's endowment is $12 billion, the 9th highest in the country. Residential housing doesn't have the impact you think it does.

Your argument is specious. Just stop trying to make Michigan mediocre. It's not. [/quote]

It is a huge school that does have a large endowment.  It is way behind a lot of schools on a per capita basis.  What percentage of Michigan's cultishly loyal alumni actually give back to the school vs. root for Big Blue vs Army?  How does that percentage compare to other schools?  Is it anywhere remotely close?

And what is the breakdown of that massive endowment?  How much belongs to the medical center and benefits no undergraduates?  How much to the Law School?  Graduate Business?  Athletics?[/quote]

oh I see. You're trying to paint Michigan as a brainless sports-obsessed school.

Per student endowment doesn't tell the whole story. Y[b]ou know which school has the 2nd highest per student endowment? Soka University of America[/b]. It's higher than Harvard. Explain that to me. Does that mean Soka is better than Harvard?

Why don't you tell me how much money goes to Harvard undergrads as opposed to the law school? [/quote]

You Google well!  Which one is first?  Princeton.  Which school is first in USNWR?  Princeton.[/quote]

And is Soka second? No.

[b]In fact, there's little correlation between USNWR and per capita endowment.[/b] One alignment doesn't equal a correlation. [/quote]

Is that a fact, now?[/quote]

I mean, you can literally run the 2 lists and derive the correlation coefficient. Or do you not know how to do that? [/quote]

Well, go off and do it then.  You argued there is no correlation.  [/quote]

Sure:

Here are the top 25 USNWR universities. I've put their per student endowment ranking in parentheses. NR means they don't rank in the top 25 for per student endowment.

princeton (1)
harvard (4)
columbia (NR)
MIT (9)
Yale (3)
Stanford (5)
Chicago (24)
Penn (NR)
Northwestern (23)
Duke (25)
Hopkins (NR)
CalTech (12)
Dartmouth (16)
Brown (NR)
Notre Dame (17)
Vanderbilt (NR)
Cornell (NR)
Rice (NR)
WUSTL (NR)
UCLA? (NR)
Emory (NR)
Berkeley (NR)
USC (NR)
Georgetown (NR)
Carnegie Mellon (NR)

Should be pretty clear even without running a correlation coefficient that the correlation is pretty weak. [/quote]

You are mixing apples and oranges.  Your USNWR list is national universities.  Your endowment per capita is national universities plus liberal arts colleges with some specialty schools thrown in.  So your top 25 in endowment per student is actually only 12 national universities and 13 non-national universities.  The top 25 national unversities in endowment per student actually looks like this:

Princeton University
Yale University
Harvard University
Stanford University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
Rice University
Dartmouth College
University of Notre Dame
Northwestern University
University of Chicago
Duke University
University of Pennsylvania
Washington University in St. Louis
Emory University
Brown University
Vanderbilt University
Columbia University
Cornell University
University of Virginia
University of Michigan
University of Rochester
Lehigh University
Case Western Reserve University
Johns Hopkins[/quote]

So next step:  there are 399 national universities out of which the top 25 are ranked.  Of those top 25 ranked, 20 were in the top 25 in endowment per capita, including the top 19.  [/quote]

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