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U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers
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Re: U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers
#42The title is incorrect. This is a ranking of the US news top-25 universities, with an additional tag noting the number of congressmembers associated with the school. If actually ordered by congressional representation the top-3 would be: 1) Harvard 2) Yale 3) Georgetown
so we can blame these schools for our awful congress?
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Princeton doesn't have any professional schools so no law degrees, medical degrees, or MBA's to fill the ranks with...
Correct. Princeton also has a small student body, it probably outperforms on a graduate per capita basis.
How did you calculate that?
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Princeton doesn't have any professional schools so no law degrees, medical degrees, or MBA's to fill the ranks with...
Correct. Princeton also has a small student body, it probably outperforms on a graduate per capita basis.
Indeed. Also observable in the fact that while Harvard is the wealthiest school on an absolute basis, Princeton has the largest endowment per enrolled student. Harvard is more than twice the size of Princeton.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even that is flawed because it is not Congressioanl Representation Per Capita. Not having it be per-capita overvalues high population schools like Harvard.
I agree, needs to be ranked per capita, but I still think that Harvard would be #1.
You'd have to account for type and breadth of schools within each, in that case. Many schools don't have medical or architecture schools, so why include per capita counts?
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#46Interesting to see how well Georgetown does. Figure it's lots of children of legislators following in their parent's footsteps.
I think it is far more than just legacies. The proximity to capital hill and other government internships opens up many opportunities. Being regarded as the best school in D.C. means it is a natural talent feeder for government agencies.
It also has an extremely well regarded foreign service program.
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#47I think this has some issues. For example I live in Ohio, so I noticed "Oberlin College" in the liberal arts section. But one of them is from Oberlin College in N.Y., where as the other two are from Ohio (Two different cities named Oberlin). I feel like they shouldn't be listed together - as far as I know, there is no association, and with such low numbers of people this seems like a bit of an issue.
> attended Oberlin College, Oberlin, N.Y., 1982-1986
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C00...
I think that's a typo. There's no such city as "Oberlin, New York"
Wikipedia says Yvette Clarke went to Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio.
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#48Sigh. USN&WR rankings are commonly gamed by the institutions.
It would be interesting to see fraternity / secret society affiliations. For example, in 2004 both major party candidates for POTUS were members of the same secret society (Skull and Bones of Yale). Now there's a choice for ya.
It's also odd to see the armed forces service academies listed as "liberal arts" colleges.
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#49Congressmen. Congressmen! Members of Congress, if you must. "Congressmembers" is an abomination. I suspect that most female members of Congress would agree. Edit: I agree with Michael. If we're going to use a neologism, let's use "congresscritter", because it correctly implies that they are slimy and disgusting creatures.
I think the standard gender-neutral term is "congresscritters".
Re: U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers
#50Congressmen. Congressmen! Members of Congress, if you must. "Congressmembers" is an abomination. I suspect that most female members of Congress would agree. Edit: I agree with Michael. If we're going to use a neologism, let's use "congresscritter", because it correctly implies that they are slimy and disgusting creatures.
Why do you care so much? Why not err on the side of making non-males feel welcome? Isn't that more important than nice-sounding words?
"Why not err on the side of making non-males feel welcome? Isn't that more important than nice-sounding words?"
That's a false dichotomy. "Members of congress" is also gender neutral and doesn't require making a ridiculous new word.