<p>I have to admit I hadn’t heard of Pomona or any of the Claremont colleges before I started helping my son with his college search. And I think it ended up being the most highly selective LAC this year.</p>
<p>JHS i love your thinking "Colleges I Ought To Be OK With If I Were A Better Person.'!!i try to educate myself about colleges and read cc avidly and i know ‘names’ shuldn’t affect me but…!!!</p>
<p>Q. What list has HYP, Grinnell and Pomona as the top 5 in the top tier?
A. Endowment per student.
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_colleges_and_universities_by_endowment[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_colleges_and_universities_by_endowment</a></p>
<p>Endowment per Student (2005)
- Princeton University $1,679,380
- Yale University $1,342,099
- Harvard University $1,291,051
- Grinnell College $893,666
- Pomona College $837,825
- Bryn Athyn College $803,626
- Swarthmore College $789,735
- Rice University $726,147
- Stanford University $714,620
- Amherst College $698,469
- Williams College $666,193
- California Institute of Technology $653,726
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology $650,430
- Wellesley College $557,243
- Dartmouth College $475,859
- Northwestern University $440,068
- Baylor College of Medicine $426,326
- Smith College $361,572
- Emory University $360,662
- Claremont McKenna College $352,219</p>