<p>Exeter's endowment is the second largest in the U.S. out of secondary schools, not the third. Exeter's endowment was $902 million on December 7, 2006, and has grown since. The school with the largest endowment was the Kamehameha Schools in Hawaii (with $7.7 billion), which has over 6,000 pupils on three different campuses.</p>
<p>I'm inclined to agree that icyff98 is not who he says he is.</p>
<p>Edit: Haha our posts overlapped, prettyckitty.</p>
<p>Standard mis-direction ploy by the D'yer -- now he's introducing the Dunkel Index, after relying on the slightly less credible Bunkel Index for the last two weeks. The late Stanford professor Whetmore Dunkel (Choate '44) would not be amused to learn that his research could be abused in such a way.</p>
<p>Actually, I read somewhere that Exeter has the third highest endowment, after Kamehaha and some other school. I don't remember which, though. I'll try to find it.</p>
<p>EDIT - It's the Milton Hershey School, with a six billion dollar endowment.</p>
<p>The Hawaiian school is actually funded by the government I believe, and has numerous campuses, and is k-12... i believe. The Milton Hershey school.. the endowment is not the exclusively for the school, I believe.. it's the Milton Hershey Trust.. for philanthropy and whatnot I think.. I think.</p>
<p>I love Milton Hershey's vision for that school, though.</p>
<p>@ fun is fun: You know exactly what I meant. Why are you out for me? What did I do to you besides call you out for trying to foment controversy and rely on a spotty and biased rating index? I mistyped and got my d and b switched up. Big whoop-be-boo.</p>
<p>Yeah, you "mistyped" it three times! Those of us familiar with Dunkel's work, most of which is available at stanfordpsychologyonline.edu, can attest to the fact that your attempt to inject his esteemed work into this discussion is misguided at best, and destructive at worst.</p>
<p>Oh, and "foment" this.</p>
<p>I'm putting you on my ignore list...once they set it up.</p>
<p>I'm crying in my beer(s)...</p>
<p>Is this serious or are you joking?</p>
<p>blairt: No, it was founded by a Hawaiian queen, but the United States overthrew their power and conquered Hawaii. It is still funded by real estate of that queen, but it is no longer the government.</p>
<p>Who can forget the United States-Hawaii War of of 1878-1890? The outcome was in doubt for a while, but thank God for the USMC who won the decisive battle of Oahu Beach in June of '90.</p>
<p>Could you reword your post, fun is fun? I didn't really get it.</p>
<p>Well, it is well known that the US conquered Hawaii. I know that many history books no longer even refer to this bloody and extended engagement, but the Marine Corps still proudly refers in their War History to their part in what has become known as the United States-Hawaii War. Sure the Navy played a part, but this two year entanglement was mostly a USMC operation.
What what I remember, the Hawaiins were terrific fighters, and almost preserved their alliance with the Polynesian Republic.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that a school isn't completely defined by its endowment. Yes, a high endowment allows a school to provide for its students and better, but a school is also shaped by its student body greatly. Providing for students can only do so much; students have to work to get results.
The best boarding schools isn't a synonym for the most highly endowed boarding schools.</p>
<p>So, fun is fun, you're saying that the Kamehameha Schools ( <a href="http://www.ksbe.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.ksbe.edu/</a> ) are a better fit if you're looking for a military school because the Hawaiians who attend the school are "terrific fighters?" The Fightin' Hawaiians? Sheesh. Can you be any more bigoted?</p>
<p>It is not bigoted to say that Hawaiians are good fighters, and tough too!
Look at how many of them are in or have played in the NFL.</p>
<p>ignoring...ignoring...ignoring...</p>
<p>don't care...don't care...don't care...</p>
<p>D'yer and fun is fun..........you have so much more to offer than this...................................STOP IT!</p>
<p>He started it.</p>