Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:silly exercise, not least because it leads to the inevitable conclusion that most DCUM readers (who aren't going to Harvard) should choose to go to City College of NY.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_City_College_of_New_York_alumni

Lenny Bristol, Don Draper and Gordon Gekko is a very impressive list of fictional alums.

I think Gordon offered summer internships lol

Anonymous wrote:silly exercise, not least because it leads to the inevitable conclusion that most DCUM readers (who aren't going to Harvard) should choose to go to City College of NY.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_City_College_of_New_York_alumni

Lenny Bristol, Don Draper and Gordon Gekko is a very impressive list of fictional alums.

Anonymous wrote:It's a small school. Like any LAC, I would not expect to be able to identify famous alumni off the top of my head.

Why would it matter?

Lots of LACs have great alumni. Wellesley has Madeline Albright, Hillary Clinton, Nora Ephron, Diane Sawyer, and Cokie Roberts. I think most people in the US and a lot in the world know all of these names.

Why?

Google Colby notable alumni and you get this:
https://www.colby.edu/about/notable-colby-alumni/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of Bushes went to Colby. A friend of mine was there with Billy Bush.

No, not a lot. Just Billy. The rest went to the family school - Yale. I know one of the second cousins, dumbest person I ever met. The name got her into Yale.

Makes you think about how dumb Billy Bush must be.

David Epstein who is a Boston area weather forecaster I use to follow on Twitter for his great takes o the timing and amount of snowfall.

He’s a Colby alumni and very proud so mentioned often in his feed.

My DH now travels much less and my kids are teens + global warming and so I’m not on my own in cleaning up after snowstorms and with no more Trump drama, no need for Twitter.

But, when I hear “Colby” I think metrologist.

Miss Maine? Hoo boy that's a reach.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a small school. Like any LAC, I would not expect to be able to identify famous alumni off the top of my head.

Why would it matter?

Compare it to Bowdoin’s list

https://www.bowdoin.edu/about/history-traditions/notable-alumni.html

DP. I can't rattle off famous alumni from any school beyond my own.

What is the point here? Looking for a way to trash Colby? Why is that?

Because of the poster who started the other Colby thread. It was weird.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a small school. Like any LAC, I would not expect to be able to identify famous alumni off the top of my head.

Why would it matter?

Compare it to Bowdoin’s list

https://www.bowdoin.edu/about/history-traditions/notable-alumni.html

DP. I can't rattle off famous alumni from any school beyond my own.

What is the point here? Looking for a way to trash Colby? Why is that?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a small school. Like any LAC, I would not expect to be able to identify famous alumni off the top of my head.

Why would it matter?

Compare it to Bowdoin’s list

https://www.bowdoin.edu/about/history-traditions/notable-alumni.html

Please tell me this isn't the direction the Bowdoin admissions office is taking.

Well, the poster of that other thread is just asking for it. They got rejected from Bowdoin and are desperately trying to make themselves feel okay about Colby.

Larry, Moe,and Curly ?

Amy Walter of the Cook Report

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Anonymous wrote:This is silly, can anyone here even name 3 famous (undergrad) alumni of Harvard or Stanford or Duke off the top of their head? Doubt it (and no, dropouts don't count).

Lol. That's easy. Harvard has Pete Buttigieg, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Conan. Stanford has Cory Booker, Josh Hawley, and Peter Thiel. Duke has JB Pritzker, Adam Silver, and Melinda Gates. I'm not including dead people, dropouts, or athletes either and I still did it.

+1 I know alumni from THOSE schools, not Colby