<p>It looks like the endowment has shot up nearly 25%- from 1.2 B in 2004 to 1.5 B in 2005. It appears that this figure excludes investments and properties.</p>
<p>Average SAT scores for accepted legacies = 1446. This really surprised me!</p>
<p>"It may have been the time, but a good many people thought that Williamstown was not the place. There was no Theatre Festival nearby, no place to get a decent cup of coffee, and no Thai
restaurant. The trustees petitioned the legislature in 1819 to move the College to Northampton, but the lawmakers in their wisdom refused. Two years later, the president of Williams, Zephaniah Swift Moore, in one of the more dastardly deeds in education, absconded with half the student body and, as legend has it, a good portion of the library over the hills to the east, where those infidels founded the college of Amherst."</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>"And what about Amherst? Alas, due to the pedagogical perfidy connected to its founding,Amherst class agents suffer from the Curse of Zephaniah, which causes their fundraising lettersto drop straight into the trash and directs all their phone calls to answering machines"</p>
<p>LMAO</p>
<p>your link is funny</p>
<p>Actually,</p>
<p>The whole guide is hilarious. I was seriously laughing my butt off. </p>
<p>Read the part about how to construct solicitation letters.</p>
<p>Top 5 worst opening lines:</p>
<p>It must have been written by Letterman</p>