<p>@slipper1234</p>
<p>“per student endowment” means nothing - look at what each college is actually spending.</p>
<p>[Dartmouth</a> News - Dartmouth Board of Trustees approves measures to close $100 million budget gap](<a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2010/02/08.html]Dartmouth”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2010/02/08.html)</p>
<p>As Dartmouth agonizes over a measly $100 million budget gap, Penn maintains an annual budget of over $6 billion - considerably higher than any other Ivy.</p>
<p>The only thing “laughable” is that Dartmouth students are willing to lock themselves away in a frozen, distant-rural campus for four years and actually believe that they’re at a HYP level.</p>