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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did a quick Google when I looked at this and found the following passage on Harvard.  It explains why you don't see Harvard grads on DCUM boosting or defending their school.  It doesn't need defending.  Its success speaks for itself.  It seems most others here (including me occasionally) feel insecure enough about their alma maters standing to get into these tit for tats:

Harvard has more alumni, faculty, and researchers who are Nobel laureates (161) and Fields Medal winners (18) than any other university in the world and more alumni who are members of the U.S. Congress, MacArthur Fellows, Rhodes Scholars (375), and Marshall Scholars (252) than any other university in the United States.[18] Its alumni also include eight U.S. presidents and 188 living billionaires, the most of any university. Fourteen Turing Award laureates have been affiliated with Harvard. Students and alumni have also won ten Academy Awards, 48 Pulitzer Prizes, and 108 Olympic medals (46 gold medals), and they have founded many notable companies.[/quote]

Yeah, but do they have many Tik Tok influencers?[/quote]

from Wiki,

"From 1951 to 1997, 32% of American Rhodes Scholars pursued careers in education and academia, 20% in law, 15% in business and 10% in medicine and science.[89] Although Cecil Rhodes imagined that scholars would "pursue a full-time career in government [...] the number of scholars in local, state and federal government has remained at a steady 7 percent" over the past century. Of the 200 or so scholars who have spent their careers in government, [b]"most of them have had solid, but undistinguished careers,"[b] while "perhaps forty or more can be said to have had a significant, national impact in their particular areas."[/quote]

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