Does anyone take endowments into consideration?

You may want to look at endowments, and then consider them further in any cases in which a college of interest appears to fall near a risky threshold. Regarding LACs, it will be pretty easy to find many with endowments per student greater than or equivalent to that of financially secure private universities such as Brown and Georgetown.

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