<p>avant-garde: are you flaming me? Review the rules here at CC before you get banned.</p>
<p>“You have NO IDEA what you’re talking about, kid.”</p>
<p>I sense some elitism. I’d suggest not pulling the age card.</p>
<p>“If we’re going to go by your logic that a school is ranked high because of its endowment, why are Cal Tech, Brown, and Johns Hopkins ranked so high?”</p>
<p>Caltech - much smaller school.
Brown - more comparable in size, roughly the same ranking
JHU - in the middle, roughly the same ranking</p>
<p>“they are ranked much higher than Vandy in the US News rankings”</p>
<p>You call 2-3 spots “much higher” (in the case of JHU and Brown)? Caltech ranks due to its small student body and large endowment.</p>
<p>My point was that US News favors private schools with large endowments. (~$3 billion is large).</p>
<p>“Your non sequitur banter bothers me.”</p>
<p>Er, are you sure you know what a non sequitur is? It’s a conclusion based on an incongruous statement (“I like to drive cars, so I ride my bike to work every day”). Could you point out where I did such?</p>