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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In re to Brown's endowment: Yes, it's the smallest in the Ivy League, but they don't have the business, law, and various grad programs the others fund. Brown seems most focused on offering a liberals arts undergrad experience.[/quote]

brown has a medical school.

princeton doesn't and princeton doesn't have a law or b-school either.

princeton's giving rate by alums and endowment destroy browns.

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Princeton actually destroys everyone when it comes to endowment per student, which is the far more meaningful figure than total endowment. Princeton stands alone with a staggering endowment of $2.81M per student. With a conservative endowment draw of 4%, that spins off more than $112K per year for each student. Yale is the only other school that tops $2M per student (Harvard is 3rd at $1.7M).

A list is here: http://www.reachhighscholars.org/college_endowments.html

Grinnell is #9 - the last school on the list above the $1M per student mark - so I guess you who judge a school by its endowment will be rushing to send your kids there.

Was surprised to see Richmond so high at #15 - helps explain the beautiful campus and lavish merit aid.
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I went to a school that's in the top 10 of the endowment/student rankings and it didn't seem very 'rich' on the outside and the merit aid isn't super lavish either. [/quote]

Grinnell is the only school in that top 10 that offers merit aid[/quote]

no there is another one that does. [/quote]

Are you talking about the McCabe Scholarships at Swarthmore? They offer like 4 scholarships a year to kids who live in suburban Philly and the Delmarva peninsula. I wouldn't really consider that a Merit Aid program. But I do agree that for such a well-endowed school, Swarthmore is not that richly appointed. However that seems to be the ethos of the college, and perhaps they are investing their wealth into an outstanding faculty, rather than Student Activity bells and whistles.

Here are the Top 10 by endowment per student:
Princeton ($2.8M/student)
Yale (2.01M)
Harvard 1.7
Stanford 1.4
Amherst 1.2
MIT 1.19
Swarthmore 1.16
Grinnell 1.05
Bowdoin 774,000/student
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