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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To invert the question, these are the 51 schools to which Forbes assigned a financial grade of A+ in 2025:

Carleton
JHU
Hillsdale
UPenn
Dartmouth
Amherst
Pomona
Brown
Swarthmore
Stanford
Colorado College
Berea
Claremont McKenna
Cornell
Haverford
Carnegie Mellon
Columbia
Vassar
Harvard
Caltech
Grinnell
Notre Dame
Mount Holyoke
Yale
Williams
Harvey Mudd
Wellesley
Lafayette
Smith
New England Conservatory of Music
Hampden–Sydney
McPherson
Hamilton
Reed
Whitman
Cooper Union
Washington and Lee
Wake Forest
St. John’s (MD)
Holy Cross
DePauw
Grove City
Wheaton (IL)
Duke
WashU
Northwestern
Kenyon
MIT
Davis & Elkins
Rice
Lehigh[/quote]

So is Princeton in trouble, the missing Ivy from this list. [/quote]
Lots of schools did not receive a grade of A+. In Princeton's case, it received a financial grade of B+ from Forbes in 2025,. The school has announced some recent budgetary constraints, which were effectively foreshadowed by Forbes:

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/02/princeton-news-adpol-eisgruber-state-of-the-university-letter-endowment-projections-drop[/quote]

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