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[quote=Anonymous]Here's how they decided what to label as elite:

"We build on the coding protocol used by Wai (Wai2013) in his study of American high achievers and leaders, which focused on the test scores of median students as reported in the 2013 US News and World Report Rankings (where the median student at elite schools scored in the top percentile of all test takers). Because our data on members of Congress go further back than 2013, and because test score medians are not reported in many earlier years, we modified Wai’s approach. After determining that Wai’s list corresponded most closely to the “top 20” colleges and universities in the overall US News rankings, we identified every top 20 college and university in those rankings between 1987 and 2009, the top 20 law schools between 1987 and 2003, and the top 20 business schools between 1991 and 2009 (business schools were not ranked in the 1980s). We then labeled as “elite” any educational institution that was in the top 20 for more than 75% of such rankings."[/quote]

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