Which colleges have the strongest/most loyal alumni network?

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[Post New]09/30/2013 09:53
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Anonymous
Particularly in this awful economy, I'd think that alumni contacts who are loyal, and can open doors if not deliver job offers, is one factor to be heavily weighed in assessing colleges. Do any schools immediately spring to mind?
[Post New]09/30/2013 10:18
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Anonymous
Dartmouth.
[Post New]09/30/2013 10:19
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Anonymous
Notre Dame
[Post New]09/30/2013 10:44
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Anonymous
Loyal alum networks seem to be a characteristic of Ivy League schools. Every region seems to have at least one school that has a very strong regional alum network [Texas, Penn State, USC, UVA come to mind] I think Notre Dame does indeed have a national network. Michigan might as well. Stanford certainly does.
[Post New]09/30/2013 10:46
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Loyal alum networks seem to be a characteristic of Ivy League schools. Every region seems to have at least one school that has a very strong regional alum network [Texas, Penn State, USC, UVA come to mind] I think Notre Dame does indeed have a national network. Michigan might as well. Stanford certainly does.


Notre Dame does have a national, and international, alumni network.
[Post New]09/30/2013 11:16
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Anonymous
Williams
[Post New]09/30/2013 11:23
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Anonymous
Michigan and Wisconsin. These big schools have alumni everywhere. They are smart and likable people.
[Post New]09/30/2013 11:26
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Anonymous
Penn State's alum network is pretty intense. My friends actually were chosen over another person who bid higher on the house they wanted because they were Penn State alumni (as was the seller).

I imagine other big schools are similar.
[Post New]09/30/2013 11:27
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Anonymous
Holy Cross
[Post New]09/30/2013 11:36
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Anonymous
Princeton
[Post New]09/30/2013 11:37
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Penn State's alum network is pretty intense. My friends actually were chosen over another person who bid higher on the house they wanted because they were Penn State alumni (as was the seller).

I imagine other big schools are similar.


PSU alum here and that's crazy. I know we have the largest dues paying alumni network, but I've never benefited from leveraging it into a job or anything like you mentioned.

[Post New]09/30/2013 11:37
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Anonymous
Amherst
[Post New]09/30/2013 11:39
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Anonymous
Princeton
[Post New]09/30/2013 11:40
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame


+1
[Post New]09/30/2013 11:45
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Anonymous
Yale. Any of the Ivys, really.
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