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The 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?
Congressmen. 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?
Interesting 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.
Plus if you're already doing political stuff in the city as a professional, the law school is not only the best in the area but one of the best in the country, which makes it a common choice for those in that line of work.
And let's not forget that this is just people affiliated with the university, which could include members of congress who teach classes at the school, not sure what the congressional roster is like right now but for example Madeline Albright teaches a very popular foreign service course.
Congressmen. 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.
Congressmen. 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?
I 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Clarke
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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.
Georgetown alum here and I can definitely vouch for this. While most students across the country would have to take an entire summer for an unpaid internship on The Hill while living in a very expensive city, our students can do this as an extra curricular during the academic year while living out of their dorm. Plus if you're already doing political stuff in the city as a professional, the law school is not only the…