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[quote=Anonymous] Love me later... go Green! 25. Pomona College Claremont, California GG Index Score: 94.61 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $14,897 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 26.2% Notable Grads: Myrlie Evers-William, Civil rights activist; Richard Chamberlain, actor and singer; Bill Keller, former New York Times editor-in-chief; actor and musician Kris Kristofferson. 24. California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California GG Index Score: 95.04 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $52,693 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 20.1% Notable Grads: Adam D’Angelo, chief executive officer and co-founder of Quora; Charles Munger, billionaire investor and vice chair of Berkshire Hathaway; Gordon Moore, cofounder Intel; Bill Gross, co-founded PIMCO, now at Janus Capital; Turing Award-winning computer scientist Robert Tarjan. 23. Hamilton College Clinton, New York GG Index Score: 94.79 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $12,100 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 39.3% Notable Grads: Ezra Pound, poet; Thomas James Vilsack, United States Secretary of Agriculture from 2009 until 2017; Paul Lieberstein, actor, screenwriter, and television producer, The Office. 22. Middlebury College Middlebury, Vermont GG Index Score: 95.01 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $14,892 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 27.6% Notable Grads: Jason Mantzoukas, comedian and actor, The League, The Dictator; Julia Alvarez, writer, poet and essayist; James Cromwell, award-winning actor, American Horror Story; hedge fund manager Louis Bacon; Hedda Berntsen, skier, 2010 Olympic silver medalist. 21. University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois GG Index Score: 95.4 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $21,435 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 22.0% Notable Grads: Susan Folderol Sontag, writer, philosopher, and political activist; Joe Mansueto, billionaire founder and executive chair of Morningstar Inc.; Actress Anna Chlumsky of HBO’s Veep; Nate Silver, statistician. 20. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania GG Index Score: 95.8 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $18,976 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 24.6% Notable Grads: President Donald Trump; Maury Povich, talk show host; Elon Musk, Tesla founder and CEO; John Legend, Grammy-winning singer; Tory Burch, fashion designer; one-time junk bond king Michael Milken, billionaire. 19. Brown University Providence, Rhode Island GG Index Score: 96.13 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $19,765 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 24.9% Notable Grads: Emma Watson, actress, Harry Potter films; Tracee Ellis Ross, model and actress, Black-ish; Janet Yellen, chair of the Federal Reserve; real estate mogul Barry Sternlicht. 18. Harvey Mudd College Claremont, California GG Index Score: 96.15 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $18,274 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 26.4% Notable Grads: Michael G. Wilson, producer and screenwriter for James Bond films; George Driver “Pinky” Nelson, former NASA astronaut. 17. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts GG Index Score: 96.38 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $40,499 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 22.9% Notable Grads: Buzz Aldrin, astronaut; David Koch, vice president Koch Industries; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 16. Yale University New Haven, Connecticut GG Index Score: 96.43 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $23,853 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 23.4% Notable Grads: Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo; Angela Bassett, Golden Globe-winning actress and producer, What’s Love Got to Do with It, American Horror Story; Olympic Gold Medalist rower Taylor Ritzel; Allison Williams, actress Girls; Jodie Foster, Oscar-winning actress; Blackstone Group founder Steven Schwarzman. 15. Duke University Durham, North Carolina GG Index Score: 96.94 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $19,984 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 27.4% Notable Grads: Melinda Gates, philanthropist; Mike Posner, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and producer; Tim Cook, CEO of Apple; Rand Paul, U.S. Senator and 2016 Presidential candidate; billionaire bond manager Bill Gross. 14. Stanford University Stanford, California GG Index Score: 97.33 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $49,756 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 25.5% Notable Grads: MSNBC host Rachel Maddow; Evan Spiegel, billionaire co-founder and CEO of Snapchat; Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google co-founders; Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo. 13. Carleton College Northfield, Minnesota GG Index Score: 97.08 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $14,921 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 43.0% Notable Grads: Peter Tork, keyboardist and bass guitarist of the Monkees; John F. Harris, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Politico; Chris Kratt, educational nature television host; Jimmy Chin, mountain climber and film director Meru ; Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird. 12. Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine GG Index Score: 97.44 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $15,589 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 44.3% Notable Grads: Reed Hastings, Netflix founder and CEO; Ed Lee, Mayor of San Francisco; Kenneth Chenault, CEO of American Express; Joan Benoit Samuelson, Olympic gold medalist. 11. Washington and Lee University Lexington, Virginia GG Index Score: 97.49 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $16,913 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 36.1% Notable Grads: Cy Twombly, American painter; Tom Wolfe, best-selling author; Money manager Bill Miller of Legg Mason; Rupert Johnson, Jr., billionaire vice chairman of Franklin Resources. 10. University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana GG Index Score: 97.64 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $17,472 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 35.5% Notable Grads: Regis Philbin, television personality; Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State; Nicholas Sparks, author and screenwriter The Notebook; billionaire Edward J. DeBartolo Jr. 9. Wabash College Crawfordsville, Indiana GG Index Score: 97.78 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $19,850 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 31.4% Notable Grads: Dan Simmons, author, Fires of Eden; Peter Henry Metzelaars, NFL player. 8. Wellesley College Wellesley, Massachusetts GG Index Score: 97.79 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $16,328 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 49.0% Notable Grads: Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State; Robin Chase, Zipcar co-founder; Diane Sawyer, television journalist; Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State. 7. Haverford College Haverford, Pennsylvania GG Index Score: 98.68 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $19,810 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 38.1% Notable Grads: Alexander Karp, billionaire CEO and co-founder of Palantir Technologies; Daniel Dae Kim, actor Hawaii Five-0; Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald. 6. Claremont McKenna College Claremont, California GG Index Score: 98.8 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $22,776 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 33.8% Notable Grads: Thomas Pritzker, Executive Chairman of Hyatt Hotels; George Roberts (pictured) and Henry Kravis, billionaire founders of KKR; Mike Jeffries, former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch; Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch. 5. Davidson College Davidson, North Carolina GG Index Score: 99.05 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $19,994 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 44.5% Notable Grads: Stephen Curry, NBA player for Golden State Warriors; former Burger King CEO John Chidsey; Anthony Foxx, U.S. Secretary of Transportation. 4. Amherst College Amherst, Massachusetts GG Index Score: 99.38 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $21,354 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 45.1% Notable Grads: Dan Brown, author, The Da Vinci Code; Susannah Grant, screenwriter, Pocahontas, Charlotte’s Web; Eric Kriss, musician and executive who helped launch Bain Capital; David Foster Wallace, the late author of Infinite Jest; best-selling author, Dan Brown; former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou. 3. Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey GG Index Score: 99.67 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $23,536 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 40.5% Notable Grads: Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice; Ethan Coen of the Coen Brothers, filmmaker, The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon; Ellie Kemper, actress The Office, Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt; Carl Icahn, billionaire activist investor. 2. Williams College Williamstown, Massachusetts GG Index Score: 99.77 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $23,434 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 47.8% Notable Grads: George Steinbrenner, New York Yankees owner; Ole Andreas Halvorsen, billionaire CEO and co-founder of hedge fund Viking Global Investors; Steve Case, co-founder of AOL; David Strathairn, actor Good Night and Good Luck; Wall Street mogul Herbert Allen Jr. 1. Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire GG Index Score: 99.81 7 Year Median Private Donation Per Student: $24,039 Average Alumni Participation Rate: 41.3% Notable Grads: Fred Rogers, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood; Connie Britton, actress, Friday Night Lights and American Horror Story; Mindy Kaling, actress, The Mindy Project; Shonda Rhimes, writer and producer, Grey’s Anatomy; Wall Street billionaires Leon Black and Jeffrey Gundlach. [/quote]
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