Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wild take: with an incredible 65% endowment gain, WashU is well positioned to surpass most Ivies and T15s in no time.

Now it sits on a massive $15 billion warchest and newly gained national and global renown to steal Nobel-winning professors from hypsm and poorer, less well-endowed schools like columbia, duke, and chicago, berkeley, and even caltech, where the students are truly suffering from the workload and LA's pollution.

WashU's pristine campus and upper-class student body will be a massive draw to top-notch applicants from all over the world.

It will be a T10 in 3-5 years with schools like Duke and Penn decline in prestige and fall outside the T10 across all rankings. I expect WashU to become a T5 school in 10 years' time, especially with the resurgence of St. Louis as the next great American city, and take Yale's place so it becomes HWP.

Why? Yale is a massively overrated school like Chicago with an incredibly weak STEM program, a lackluster business school, and an average medical school. Not to mention Princeton without any professional schools... Stanford has too many athletes and soon there will be a second dot com boom, trashing the silicon valley and its reputation, along with MIT. Meanwhile, Penn and Columbia are at best middling ivies and Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth are barely on the level of HYP, or WashU in 10 years' time.

JHU is just another WashU wannabe but lacks the elite flair and laid-back vibes, not to mention Northwestern and Chicago, both of which are located in a declining city where the population is fleeing in droves. Other T15s like Vandy and Rice are no match for WashU's endowment and reputation.

Go Bears!

good joke

Northwestern isn’t in Chicago, idiot. It’s in the expensive and elite North Shore.

Anonymous wrote:Too bad STL is a sh1thole and WashU grads are nutters.

Look, you can disagree with the original poster and not be such a jerk. My kid goes there and I can assure you that many who graduate from there are bright, articulate, sane people with great futures ahead of them (i.e., not nutters). And like any city, STL has good parts and bad.

Why do you feel compelled to be so unkind in your response?

Congratulations to your child who was just accepted?!

You poor old soul, OP.

Too bad STL is a sh1thole and WashU grads are nutters.

Anonymous wrote:Wild take: with an incredible 65% endowment gain, WashU is well positioned to surpass most Ivies and T15s in no time.

Now it sits on a massive $15 billion warchest and newly gained national and global renown to steal Nobel-winning professors from hypsm and poorer, less well-endowed schools like columbia, duke, and chicago, berkeley, and even caltech, where the students are truly suffering from the workload and LA's pollution.

WashU's pristine campus and upper-class student body will be a massive draw to top-notch applicants from all over the world.

It will be a T10 in 3-5 years with schools like Duke and Penn decline in prestige and fall outside the T10 across all rankings. I expect WashU to become a T5 school in 10 years' time, especially with the resurgence of St. Louis as the next great American city, and take Yale's place so it becomes HWP.

Why? Yale is a massively overrated school like Chicago with an incredibly weak STEM program, a lackluster business school, and an average medical school. Not to mention Princeton without any professional schools... Stanford has too many athletes and soon there will be a second dot com boom, trashing the silicon valley and its reputation, along with MIT. Meanwhile, Penn and Columbia are at best middling ivies and Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth are barely on the level of HYP, or WashU in 10 years' time.

JHU is just another WashU wannabe but lacks the elite flair and laid-back vibes, not to mention Northwestern and Chicago, both of which are located in a declining city where the population is fleeing in droves. Other T15s like Vandy and Rice are no match for WashU's endowment and reputation.

Go Bears!

good joke

Anonymous wrote:At some point in the 80s or 90s, UT's endowment topped Harvard's. They were able to lure a few professors with big labs. That was about it.

UT isn’t really a good comparison, because the endowment is shared across the entire UT and Texas A&M systems. The enormous population growth in Texas made the demand for UT-Austin far outstrip the number of seats available, so they have greatly expanded and upgraded the 8 UT “satellite” campuses since the 80’s & 90’s, and have added a new Dell Medical School at UT-Austin (in addition to the existing five standalone medical centers, such as MD Anderson). One of the labs they lured from Dartmouth was responsible for mapping the spike protein on the coronavirus that was the key to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

This isn’t to defend UT, because it doesn’t need it (the out of state admission rate is in single digits), but to show that a huge endowment does matter.

https://alcalde.texasexes.org/2021/03/how-ut-research-led-to-the-development-of-the-covid-19-vaccine-in-record-breaking-time/


It’s actually kind of funny to see Dartmouth take credit for the vaccine and mention UT not at all:

https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2020/groundwork-for-covid-19-vaccine-laid-at-dartmouth/

Anonymous wrote:Epic troll post. Congratulations!

+1. Though St. Louis does have some nice architecture, we'll be waiting until the next millennium for it to emerge as the "next great American city."

Epic troll post. Congratulations!

WashU boosters are truly delusional. Makes an embarrassing representation of the school.

At some point in the 80s or 90s, UT's endowment topped Harvard's. They were able to lure a few professors with big labs. That was about it.

OP, you don’t believe in your own nonsense, so why would anyone else? Go take your meds and come back only after you get some sanity back in your thick skull.

It's a nice regional school. Vandy probably is the best comp.

Seems like just about every schools endowment skyrocketed this year...just like the stock market. Hmm.

Wild take: with an incredible 65% endowment gain, WashU is well positioned to surpass most Ivies and T15s in no time.

Now it sits on a massive $15 billion warchest and newly gained national and global renown to steal Nobel-winning professors from hypsm and poorer, less well-endowed schools like columbia, duke, and chicago, berkeley, and even caltech, where the students are truly suffering from the workload and LA's pollution.

WashU's pristine campus and upper-class student body will be a massive draw to top-notch applicants from all over the world.

It will be a T10 in 3-5 years with schools like Duke and Penn decline in prestige and fall outside the T10 across all rankings. I expect WashU to become a T5 school in 10 years' time, especially with the resurgence of St. Louis as the next great American city, and take Yale's place so it becomes HWP.

Why? Yale is a massively overrated school like Chicago with an incredibly weak STEM program, a lackluster business school, and an average medical school. Not to mention Princeton without any professional schools... Stanford has too many athletes and soon there will be a second dot com boom, trashing the silicon valley and its reputation, along with MIT. Meanwhile, Penn and Columbia are at best middling ivies and Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth are barely on the level of HYP, or WashU in 10 years' time.

JHU is just another WashU wannabe but lacks the elite flair and laid-back vibes, not to mention Northwestern and Chicago, both of which are located in a declining city where the population is fleeing in droves. Other T15s like Vandy and Rice are no match for WashU's endowment and reputation.

Go Bears!