<p>The older universities are the exceptions…... Age has very little to do with endowment size.</p>
<p>From the Bay Area, I would say it looked something like this:
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT
Columbia
Dartmouth, Brown, Caltech
Penn, Cornell, Duke
UChicago</p>
<p>I can't really say about the UC's, since like 150 kids go to Berkeley every year from my high school's class. Yes, my high school was large.</p>
<p>Funny the oldest universities are so well endowed. Your endowment is actually supposed to shrink with age.</p>
<p>Skidmore is actually older than Penn and Princeton. In 1701 a fur trapper by the name of Zeb Skidmore built a lean-to near Saratoga Springs in the middle of a blizzard. Legend has it that he thought a lot about the weather until it cleard up 2 days later. Some consider that lean-to to be the first Department of Atmospherics and Meteorology in the land.</p>
<p>I havent read all the posts but lets face the facts. If you get into one of these top schools, undergrad or grad you are good for the rest of your insignificant life. That is unless you do stupid things like go to MIT and commit sucide. Really, if your in any of these top schools and your dropped a rank or something, based on someones views, dont cry me a river.</p>
<p>Princeton is older than Penn. That fuzzy math by the archivist at Penn has made a lot of people in the Ivy League very angry.</p>