What is Duke doing to get better?

[sgopal2]

lb43823 wrote:

The first one is is actually a negative. Harvard’s endowment went from 26 billion in 2005 to 36 billion in 2015. Yale’s has gone from 15 billion to 24 billion. Stanford from 12 billion to 21 billion. If we talk about peer schools, Columbia from 5.2 to 9.2, CMU from 0.8 to 1.6, Dartmouth from 2.7 to 4.4, Penn from 4.3 to 9.6.
Duke is nothing special in those terms. In fact, the endowment increase has been absolutely minimal.

■■■? In terms of a raw percentage increase over the 10 year period, Duke ranks THIRD among the schools you yourself listed!!!
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[]Penn: 4.3 to 9.6 (123% increase)
[]CMU: 0.8 to 1.6 (100% increase)
[]Duke: 3.8 to 7.0 (84% increase)
[li]Columbia 5.2 to 9.2 (77% increase)[/li][]Stanford: 12 to 21 (75% increase)
[]Dartmouth: 2.7 to 4.4 (63% increase)
[]Yale: 15 to 24 (60% increase)
[li]Harvard: 26 to 36 (38% increase)[/ul][/li]To say this is nothing special is sheer stupidity on your part. You clearly are not happy with Duke and are desperate to get off the Columbia waitlist. Please do us all a favor and go away.