<p>^ramboacid</p>
<p>Without really looking at the numbers too carefully, I’m going to guess that the primary movable target in rank is percent alumni giving. Chicago hounds ME about getting my classmates to give with “participation challenges” for this reason (e.g. it’s not about total number of dollars given as much as everybody and their mother giving at least one dollar.)</p>
<p>It took me a sec to remember what you meant about HYPSM- Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT. Ok. Those schools, I would argue, compete more against each other than would be fair to monolith them, and why those schools? Why that acronym? Why not CCCWAO (Cambridge, Caltech, Columbia, Williams, Amherst, Oxford)? And if we’re talking money, then we really need to include schools like Grinnell and Smith into the picture, and other large endowment, small student population schools.</p>