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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIW, Bowdoin has a lot of money now... on par with the other ones. So it's very resource rich. Endowment almost 2x Midd and it's a smaller school.[/quote]

Does it actually spend that money on its students or is it like Wellesley and just sits on the endowment for the USN ranking? Unfortunately a lot of the most elite SLACs are doing this. The dorms at Wellesley are gross. [/quote]

All colleges are required to spend 4-5% of their endowments annually. So no school is really sitting on it. Wellesley is just choosing to spend it on things like financial aid versus infrastructure.[/quote]

Also, you need to define "gross." I have no problem believing that Wellesley's dorms are in need of some renovation, but I'd be very surprised if they are dilapidated to the point of being structural safety hazards. If what you're saying is that peer schools have all renovated and upgraded the amenities of their respective dorms within the last five years and Wellesley has not, that's a fair point, but if the renovation timelines are all the same, I'd be very skeptical of this assessment for the simple reason that Wellesley, compared to other schools, tends not to have a big drinking culture, and both vandalism and property damage are correlated with on-campus drinking. Also (and I realize that what I'm about to say is a broad generalization), women tend to be more hygienic than men, especially during the college years. Sure, go into any random dorm room and you'll likely find lots of dust, piled up papers and heaps of dirty laundry whatever the sex of its occupants. But you're more likely to find piled up food waste and the like in rooms occupied by men. [/quote]

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