<p>I appreciate the responses but I don’t think it is true that </p>
<p>"Brown has a multi-billion dollar endowment and can afford to be more generous. "</p>
<p>Two years ago my S received FA offers from Vanderbilt, JHU, Olin, Tufts, and Brown. Of all these schools, Brown was the least generous. The endowment only helps if the administration can tap into it.</p>
<p>Many of us have been fooled into thinking that the ivies are generous but it is only the rich ivies that are generous and this has only been recently. Harvard’s endowment is an order of magnitude greater than Brown’s. Our friends who are reasonably comfortable have a D at Harvard and they are paying about half what we pay for Brown.</p>