<p>^..lol........u will soon make it as we did..!!..</p>
<p>lol.....:D:D:D....bravo....100 more to go for generic...</p>
<p>I am desperately chasing Issac...Hope one day I will overcome him..in regards to post number that is ..lol..</p>
<p>^............lol.........dont worry u will get that opportunity just in few days....coz I will need to go for SAT............</p>
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[Cupcake] Do you know what percentage of Harvard's or Yale's endowment corresponds to "liquid capital" ? I wonder if it is that much different from Oxbridge.
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<p>No, I know nothing about Harvard or Yale, apart from the fact my housemate here in Oxford was a Yale undergrad. I doubt she would know stuff like that though (She is out at at Thanksgiving party right now). </p>
<p>It's relatively unusual for graduates to donate to UK universities while they're still alive. There are no tax breaks or any rewards for doing so. Most of their money and property is from
a)the church of England (historically - look how many colleges are named St X)
b)the crown (historially - look how many stupid princes have amazingly gained places)
c)inheritance from graduates after death</p>
<p>Cambridge have something called "Isaac Newton Bursaries" which are supposedly from the money left to them when Issac Newton died, which was then invested. But actually this cannot be true because it only started in the 1980s! </p>
<p>There are lots of rumours about how much land the colleges own such as you can walk from St Johns Oxford to St Johns Cambridge on college owned land, Trinity college Cambridge is the 4th biggest landowner in the UK etc etc. But I think the answer is nobody really knows and much of this is surrounded in secrecy.</p>
<p>Having said this, I had a phone call from my undergraduate college just last week asking for money, and I get lots of magazines from both my college and university as a whole, so they do try.</p>