HPSM, Caltech, Wharton, Duke, Yale, and if my kid wants a tight-knit college experience, Dartmouth and Williams.

Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Northwestern, Chicago and Hopkins

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Anonymous wrote:Ivies except Cornell and MIT+Stanford.

It’s really just HYPSM Wharton and maybe Columbia

Just HYPSM and maybe Wharton.

^^ see the book Philanthropy by UVA professor Olivier Zunz

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Anonymous wrote:Ivies except Cornell and MIT+Stanford.

It’s really just HYPSM Wharton and maybe Columbia

No. Just Harvard.

Or is it just Stanford in the 2020s?
With real estate, Stanford has a larger total endowment than Harvard by over $2 billion and has been even more selective. It is a little crazy that "just Harvard" may not be a thing anymore.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-top-endowment-funds/

Wow, only 6 schools have assets of $30B or more and they're all in the US: Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, and Duke. I'd be curious why Oxford and Cambridge, which have been around for longer, don't have comparable asset bases.

Oxford and Cambridge assets are "priceless.". Their assets are tied to properties or priceless antiques. They don't make the spreadsheet, so they are far more prosperous than they show on paper. Same with Columbia who is one of the largest property owners in Manhattan.

You are actually quite wrong about both Oxford and Cambridge. England does not have the historical of academic philanthropy that America has. Ours developed from Carnegie and the robber barons who followed his example and donated to their American colleges and universities. Harvard and other elites have far greater assets in endowment than any of the Oxford colleges. Only now is that kind of giving catching on. They also don’t leave legacy like we do because there was no history of giving to an institution to ensure a leg up for future generations. Entire books have been written about Philanthropy in America

Don't apply and go to any school which you obviously can't afford.

Anonymous wrote:Who in their right minds would pay full freight for UPenn?

Watch the news. Didn’t you see the video of all those Wharton students holding a venture capital seminar at the Foot Locker & Lululemon last night? Nobody pays full price there. If you come a little short on your tuition payment at a Penn, you apparently just loot a couple stores at your convenience & sell the goods on Ebay. The best thing is you don’t have to mess with all that financial aid paperwork.

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Anonymous wrote:Ivies except Cornell and MIT+Stanford.

It’s really just HYPSM Wharton and maybe Columbia

No. Just Harvard.

Or is it just Stanford in the 2020s?
With real estate, Stanford has a larger total endowment than Harvard by over $2 billion and has been even more selective. It is a little crazy that "just Harvard" may not be a thing anymore.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-top-endowment-funds/

Wow, only 6 schools have assets of $30B or more and they're all in the US: Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, and Duke. I'd be curious why Oxford and Cambridge, which have been around for longer, don't have comparable asset bases.

Oxford and Cambridge assets are "priceless.". Their assets are tied to properties or priceless antiques. They don't make the spreadsheet, so they are far more prosperous than they show on paper. Same with Columbia who is one of the largest property owners in Manhattan.

None. My family doesn't have that kind of money. It's not a possibility for us.

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Anonymous wrote:Ivies except Cornell and MIT+Stanford.

It’s really just HYPSM Wharton and maybe Columbia

No. Just Harvard.

Or is it just Stanford in the 2020s?
With real estate, Stanford has a larger total endowment than Harvard by over $2 billion and has been even more selective. It is a little crazy that "just Harvard" may not be a thing anymore.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-top-endowment-funds/

Wow, only 6 schools have assets of $30B or more and they're all in the US: Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, and Duke. I'd be curious why Oxford and Cambridge, which have been around for longer, don't have comparable asset bases.

Notre Dame of Maryland - #21 in the world in asset base? How did they do that?

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Anonymous wrote:HYPSM, Duke, Columbia, Northwestern, Caltech, Brown.

Why Brown/Northwestern over Penn?

I'll be completely frank. Outside of Wharton, Penn's name value is basically nil. Many people confuse it with Penn State. The campus culture, I've heard from multiple sources, is toxic. Just not my thing, but no disrespect to those who choose to attend (or pay full freight for their DC).

I disagree. I have a DC at Penn engineering and the internship opportunities have been fabulous. Career services is wonderful at Penn. I have an older DC who graduated from Stanford and Penn opens just as many career doors as Stanford does with better support for getting through the door. The only benefit I’ll give Stanford over Penn is the ability to get VC money if you have an interest in starting a company.

Penn does rank highly for graduates raising VC money. Here is the latest Pitchbook ranking:

1. Stanford
2. Berkeley
3. Harvard
4. Penn
5. MIT
6. Cornell
7. Tel Aviv
8. Michigan
9. Texas
10. UCLA

Willing to pay Full Tuition at:

1. Stanford
2. Berkeley
3. Harvard
4. Princeton
5. MIT
6. Caltech

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Anonymous wrote:HYPSM, Duke, Columbia, Northwestern, Caltech, Brown.

Why Brown/Northwestern over Penn?

I'll be completely frank. Outside of Wharton, Penn's name value is basically nil. Many people confuse it with Penn State. The campus culture, I've heard from multiple sources, is toxic. Just not my thing, but no disrespect to those who choose to attend (or pay full freight for their DC).

I disagree. I have a DC at Penn engineering and the internship opportunities have been fabulous. Career services is wonderful at Penn. I have an older DC who graduated from Stanford and Penn opens just as many career doors as Stanford does with better support for getting through the door. The only benefit I’ll give Stanford over Penn is the ability to get VC money if you have an interest in starting a company.

Penn does rank highly for graduates raising VC money. Here is the latest Pitchbook ranking:

1. Stanford
2. Berkeley
3. Harvard
4. Penn
5. MIT
6. Cornell
7. Tel Aviv
8. Michigan
9. Texas
10. UCLA

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Anonymous wrote:Who in their right minds would pay full freight for UPenn?

U Penn-Wharton is worth the investment.

I do. Send them the money twice a year. Thrilled to have a child attending!

Anonymous wrote:Duke does not have an endowment of $30 billion, lmao.

Duke boosters are insane.

It’s referring to the link that showed top schools by asset base, not endowment. Assets include things like land, which endowment doesn’t. Stanford doesn’t have a $75B endowment, but its asset base is $75B.

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Anonymous wrote:Who in their right minds would pay full freight for UPenn?

Hey Troll,
I would and am certain millions of others would.

Millions?

Yawn.