<p>Could you please provide a list or ranking of which colleges you feel to have the strongest alumni networking?</p>
<p>Ivies and top LAcs, and then regional schools where affluent families have sent their kids for generations: Stanford, USC, SMU, Duke, Vandy, BC, Georgetown, Kenyon, Oberlin.</p>
<p>thanks zagat.</p>
<p>any other schools?</p>
<p>Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and Princeton have great alumni networks. With the obvious exception of Dartmouth, I don't know if the inferior ivies have good networking.</p>
<p>I would say all top universities have excellent networking opportunities. Obviously, all the elite LACs, Ivy League schools, Cal, Caltech, Chicago, Duke, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Michigan, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Rice, Stanford, UNC, UVA, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Washington University, William & Mary...etc. </p>
<p>But at the end of the day, it really depends on what you make of your college experience. Some students forge excellent relationships in non-descript universities while others squander their opportunities at the networking meccas!</p>
<p>Outside of the Ivies, the schools that tend to actively foster their networks the most are USC and Notre Dame.</p>
<p>What Alexandre said is quite true; I know people here who just assume some alumnus/alumna will pluck them out of the candidate pool. They're in for a surprise...</p>
<p>Grinnell College</p>
<p>I agree Goblue, netowrking apportunities at LACs are indeed amazing. Grinnell is no exception.</p>
<p>Texas A&M has to be near the top of this list.</p>
<p>The military academies have pretty strong networks. In the Army, West Pont graduates are known as "ring knockers", identifiable by their large class rings.</p>
<p>i think that alongwith the iviews, LACs and other higher ranked schools - any school with a good team sports tradition (esp. football and basketball) tends to have good alumni networkin</p>
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<p>You base this on what? As a college with one of the most cohesive communities they have an extremely stong alumni system. Apparently you haven't been to or know anyone at Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Don't get POed, sybbie. LOL I knew someone was bound to get angry when "inferior ivy" was mentioned.</p>
<p>What really concerns me is the use of the word "inferior Ivy"! That's a contradiction in terms if I ever heard one!</p>
<p>DMC,</p>
<p>bayby I still got love for ya even if you are going to Duke :D</p>
<p>It's not a matter of being PO'ed, it isn't even brag, it is just FACT. But then I should also consider the source and chalk it up to your being young and having a very limited frame of reference which may be based more on conjecture,hearsay and following the crowd than actual experiences, facts.</p>
<p>I know that the NYC alumni are indeed very strong because my D recieved a number of e-mails from the NYC alumni asking what she was doing over the summer and were ready to avail themselves to her if needed. She even turned down a summer jobs at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs (an alumni paved the way for her) because she really isn't interested in IB and she's just finishing up her first year.</p>
<p>Alexandre,</p>
<p>Maybe you can shed some light on this, explain the concept of "lower ivies' and "Inferior Ivy"</p>
<p>Sybbie, I cannot explain the concept of an "inferior" or "lesser" Ivie. "Lesser" Ivy has been used for a while and it is at least possible to stomach the term, albeit with some difficulty. But inferior ivy is preposterous! LOL</p>
<p>Sybbie, I DON'T BELIEVE DARTY IS INFERIOR TO ANYTHING!!! I just knew that
such a comment would strike nerves with a particular group of Indians. lol It was hard as hell turning that school down too. I even wrote a thank you letter with my reply card.</p>
<p>I tend to just ignore comments like that</p>
<p>Penn State has a really massive alumni network, and I'm sure all the California public schools do as well, because of all of the students.</p>
<p>PSU has a great network, as do UCLA and Berkeley. I am not too sure about the other UCs.</p>
<p>i love that the so-called "lesser" ivies are still among the top 10 or 12 schools in the nation. they are such "inferior" universities, geez.</p>