Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do DMV people need such validation? Stop living in the past. And I say this as someone who’s college was high in the list. It’s a waste of time and energy, why is everyone so insecure and competitive here.

You are describing DCUM haha. Do you think it is this way in real life? Curious what your experiences.

I know, it just seems ridiculous. Why can’t we be proud of being good people or raising kind children, instead it’s how how the college I went to 20 years ago is ranked on another random list

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.

Anonymous wrote:Forbes has lost all credibility since it keeps featuring fraudsters on its covers.

+1.

Forbes has lost all credibility since it keeps featuring fraudsters on its covers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh I hate the clickbait layout where you have to click to see each school. Would it kill them to make a normal list on a single page?

+1000

Haha. I am too lazy. I was posting to ask if someone can share the TLDR highlights.

Anonymous wrote:Ugh I hate the clickbait layout where you have to click to see each school. Would it kill them to make a normal list on a single page?

+1000

Anonymous wrote:Why do DMV people need such validation? Stop living in the past. And I say this as someone who’s college was high in the list. It’s a waste of time and energy, why is everyone so insecure and competitive here.

You are describing DCUM haha. Do you think it is this way in real life? Curious what your experiences.

It's an interesting list/perspective. No validation requirements included. Stop being so bitter and negative.

Why do DMV people need such validation? Stop living in the past. And I say this as someone who’s college was high in the list. It’s a waste of time and energy, why is everyone so insecure and competitive here.

Ugh I hate the clickbait layout where you have to click to see each school. Would it kill them to make a normal list on a single page?

LAC booster clickbait

I knew Davidson would be high up there - and it's at #5. Go Wildcats!

https://www3.forbes.com/money/top-25-colleges-with-the-happiest-most-successful-alumni-v3/2/

Looks legit to me. Let the criticism begin!