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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know the obvious ones-- Ivies, Stanford, MIT. But what are the other schools typically? What schools are top 25 but not top 20?[/quote]

Here is a recent article that lists 34 schools with the most influential alumni.  I think it's a bit dated because The ahrvard pull isn't what it used to be and I am sure the Bucknell guy is going to stop by to let us know that Bucknell belongs on this list.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03547-8

Amherst College
Bowdoin College
Brown University
California Institute of Technology
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Georgetown University
Harvard University
Harvey Mudd College
Haverford College
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New York University
Northwestern University
Pomona College
Princeton University
Rice University
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
Tufts University
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University
Washington University in St. Louis
Williams College
Yale University[/quote]

It's an interesting list and certainly a different way of looking at colleges.  I thought the following paragraph was interesting:

The Ivy league and Harvard University
Taking a direct non-weighted average of the percentages within just the Ivy League institutions shows that about 36.3% attended one of just these eight schools. Harvard alone accounts for 16%, meaning that a single institution accounts for almost a sixth of all American extraordinary achievers. Of the “Elite” 34 schools, 82.3% were accounted for by the top 16 schools, 67% were accounted for by the Ivy League, and 29.5% were accounted for by Harvard.[/quote]

I think that list includes graduate alumni.  Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School on their own would rank pretty high.  UVA Law could even rank pretty high.[/quote]

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