<p>Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I wasn’t suggesting Brown doesn’t need to change anything or increase endowment, I was just suggesting that your ideas for change (improve/create graduate or other vocational educational programs) were not the way to do it. All i’m saying is that the size of the endowment is not the end-all be all of Brown, and that improving it in ways that are otherwise detrimental to the special character of the university that most alumni know and love is foolish.</p>
<p>I was also saying that no matter what we do or how large our endowment is, I doubt Brown will ever crack the top 10 on USNWR because the personal bias of other schools is the largest part of their ranking system, and the fact that the rest of our peers look down on us as being less rigorous is never going to change as long as we march to the beat of our own very different, curricular drum.</p>