Ok, that really helps.
It means you can also “situate” yourself in relation to other applicants from previous years and from this year and your GC should have a good idea. What’s their advice?
(Or are you on Christmas/Winter vacation right now?)
You should limit yourself to group 1 and 2 (“richest among the rich” if you will) for your ED2. Also, in terms of selectivity, the top 4 should be seen as equivalent.
Below it’s endowment per student at LACs last year where they’d be considered “rich” LACs (before they all took a big hit due to Covid) – I did not include LACs that are OK but would likely worry even before Covid, and LACs that are not okay.
Pomona 1,486,314
Swarthmore 1,370,157
Williams 1,380,957
Amherst 1,332,588
Grinnell 1,224,100
Olin Coll. of Engin. 1,097,143
Bowdoin 953,864
Rice 941,337
Notre Dame 906,400
Dartmouth 880,658
Washington & Lee 754,980
U of Richmond
Emory 546,238
Bryn Mawr 541,752
Hamilton 523,979
Duke 517,710
Trinity 516,646
Vanderbilt 512,787
Univ. of Chicago 512,297
Davidson 478,277
Vassar 457,567
Carleton 436,145
Colby 434,964
Brown 406,615
Haverford 404,497
Columbia 394,763
Reed 393,900
Denison 389,004
Harvey Mudd 368,350
Middlebury 362,374
Macalester 358,336
Scripps 352,331
Mt. Holyoke 350,797
DePauw 340,644
Oberlin 338,768
Johns Hopkins 335,021
Wesleyan 323,401
Colgate 322,047
Lafayette 317,583
Cornell * 294,923
Holy Cross 253,337