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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No LACs, as expected[/quote]

I see 2 LACs only - Middlebury and Amherst. But I agree it's not many.

I had Chat Gpt control for population size

So we will create a “Leadership Density Index (LDI)” where:

75% weight = TIME Future Leaders rank

25% weight = inverse enrollment size
(smaller student body = higher score)

I normalized enrollment into tiers so this stays intuitive and not math-heavy.

🧠 Leadership Density Index – Top Schools
🥇 Tier 1: Elite Leadership Factories (High Leaders / Low Population)
LDI Rank School
1 Harvard
2 Stanford
3 Yale
4 Princeton
5 MIT
6 Dartmouth
7 Brown
8 Columbia
9 UPenn
10 Duke
11 UChicago
12 Northwestern
13 Georgetown
14 Cornell
15 Notre Dame
These schools dominate because they combine:

Top-15 TIME rank

Relatively small enrollment

Extremely high leadership placement per capita

🥈 Tier 2: Hidden Powerhouses (Smaller but Massive Output)
LDI Rank School
16 Emory
17 Vanderbilt
18 Tufts
19 Rice
20 WashU (St. Louis)
21 William & Mary
22 Caltech
23 Amherst
24 Middlebury
25 Smith College
26 Wake Forest
27 Pepperdine
28 Villanova
29 Trinity University
30 Mount Holyoke
These schools produce outsized leadership results relative to their size.

🥉 Tier 3: Big Schools That Still Punch Above Their Weight
LDI Rank School
31 UVA
32 USC
33 UCLA
34 NYU
35 Boston College
36 GW
37 Syracuse
38 Miami (FL)
39 Tulane
40 Lehigh
41 Georgia Tech
42 UC Berkeley
43 Michigan
44 UNC Chapel Hill
45 Indiana University
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