<p>Out of curiosity, why is Brown’s Endowment so miniscule in comparison to other top-schools ($1.7 billion vs Harard’s $18 billion, for example). Are Brown gradutes less loyal to their alma-mater? Why? <a href=“I’m%20being%20purely%20speculative,%20and%20not%20intending%20to%20cause%20a%20flame%20war!”>i</a>*</p>
<p>Also, how does such a small endowment impact the school’s ability to provide financial aid?</p>
<p>Juts a point of note, you should be considering endowment per student. On a per-student basis, Brown's endowment looks much better.</p>
<p>mgcsinc is right in that the endowment/student ratio is quite telling. in this regard brown is in the middle of the pack. the graduate programs at brown are by far the smallest in the ivy league, and this is mostly done on purpose. </p>
<p>this does not take, away, however from the fact that the endowment could be higher than it is. most of the reason has to do with the long interim period without a president after gordon gee's departure. upon ruth simmon's arrival, a new capital campaign has finally been launched to the tune of 1.5 billion dollars.</p>
<p>Compare Brown's endowment to Georgetown's, and it will look much better. Georgetown's is only in the high hundreds of millions, not even billions.</p>
<p>Dr. Gregorian has made huge stride to raise the endowment. It is much larger now than it was then.</p>
<p>Didn't you guys get that postcard?</p>
<p>Apparently some guy gave the 8th-biggest single endowment in the history of the United States this past spring or something, and nearly all of it was going towards financial aid.</p>
<p>yeah... 100 million!</p>
<p>I love the story of the 100 million dollar donation:</p>
<p>A guy went to Brown, but dropped out after a year because he couldn't afford it. He went to war (I think WWII) and did something and made a lot of money and then donated that large sum to the University because he cherished the year he spent there and hoped that no one would have to drop out becasue of financial reasons. Can you believe it? Their biggest donation wasn't even from a graduate!</p>
<p>Founder of Grey Goose Vodka.</p>
<p>Most of our most famous alums didn't graduate! Moral of the story: get in to Brown, and promptly drop out.</p>
<p>(For the record, lack of funds is supposedly not the only reason Sidney Frank dropped out, and he didn't "found" grey goose, he imported it and made it an American success.)</p>
<p>I thought it was Jager?</p>
<p>wow, to think if you only put in that much research into your academic life...... lol jk</p>
<p>Rabo: It's both, and we'd like it if he'd donate some of both.</p>
<p>meng: I do, :-P</p>