Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief

Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by Master_Odin on Sunday March 05, 2023 @01:12PM (#35032281)

None of these (and other) schools view endowments as something to spend. It must always be growing to show how amazing and great the school is.

I remember how during the pandemic there was a number of articles about how these schools might have to take out some small pittance of the endowment to fund certain things and the schools were all doom and gloom about it.

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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by jvanderbot on Sunday March 05, 2023 @01:58PM (#35032723)

Many endowments pay the salary of the fundraisers at major universities, in fact. And legacy gifts are usually set up for "forever" scholarship, where, say 5000 bucks is available for a certain type of student each semester forever, because the gift to the school was large enough that they know investing it will make at least enough to cover the cost.

So no, endowments aren't spent, but the returns fund a lot of stuff.

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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by edflsafoiewq on Sunday March 05, 2023 @02:36PM (#35033094)

You don't spend the endowment, you spend the interest.

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