Columbia: 22,249 applicants

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Does the endowment include federal funding? (and please no ignorant statements like "what federal funding, CU is a private school, all schools get federal funding, for means of regulation)

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<p>The endowment is how much money the school has in the bank to invest. The federal funding is probably all spent pretty quickly, so it shouldn’t affect the endowment. The government isn’t in the business of giving Ivy league schools free money to invest for capital projects in 2050.</p>

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know HYP’s image far surpasses Dartmouth’s or Brown’s, but in terms of the actual education, how much difference can their really be?

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<p>The “actual education” is pretty similar at Harvard, Columbia, or even NYU. It’s all prestige and image.</p>