<p>City College of New York (CUNY): 3
No college education: 5
U. Rochester: 3
Harvard: 4
Penn: 3
Cornell: 2
UVA: 2
Fordham: 2
Binghamton: 2
Oberlin: 3
Barnard: 2
Carleton: 2
U. Mich: 2
Amherst: 2
Smith: 2
Michigan State U: 2
Howard: 1
Morehouse: 1
Loyola U. Chicago: 2
St. Olaf: 1
Notre Dame: 1
Antioch: 1
University of Maryland, Baltimore County: 1
University of Maryland, College Park: 1
NYU: 1
Brown: 1
Northwestern: 1
University of Illinois at Chicago: 2
Trinity College: 1
Columbia: 2
Occidental: 1
Michigan State University: 2
Yale: 1
Castleton State College: 1
University of Rhode Island: 1
Mount Holyoke: 1
Three Rivers Community College: 1
University of Toronto: 1
Sweet Briar College: 1
University of Colorado: 1
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill: 1</p>
<p>City College of New York (CUNY): 4*****
No college education: 6*****
U. Rochester: 3
Harvard: 4
Penn: 3
Cornell: 2
UVA: 2
Fordham: 3*****
Binghamton: 2
Oberlin: 3
Barnard: 2
Carleton: 2
U. Mich: 2
Amherst: 2
Smith: 2
Michigan State U: 2
Howard: 1
Morehouse: 1
Loyola U. Chicago: 2
St. Olaf: 1
Notre Dame: 1
Antioch: 1
University of Maryland, Baltimore County: 1
University of Maryland, College Park: 1
NYU: 2******
Brown: 1
Northwestern: 1
University of Illinois at Chicago: 2
Trinity College: 1
Columbia: 2
Occidental: 1
Michigan State University: 2
Yale: 1
Castleton State College: 1
University of Rhode Island: 1
Mount Holyoke: 1
Three Rivers Community College: 1
University of Toronto: 1
Sweet Briar College: 1
University of Colorado: 1
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill: 1
Holy Cross: 2*****
Boston College: 2*****
Fairfield University: 2*****
Manhattanville College: 4*****</p>
<p>Steve Jobs is one of my heros, he didn’t even go to college.</p>
<p>My Heroes:</p>
<p>Barack Obama- Columbia, Harvard
Bill Richardson- Tufts
Ron Paul- Gettysburg College
Jesse Ventura- North Hennepin Community College
Ralph Nader- Princeton, Harvard
Chris Matthews- Holy Cross, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill
David Shuster- University of Michigan, Georgetown
Chris Hansen- ???
Stone Phillips- Yale
Ben Gordon- University of Conneticut
Michael Jordan- University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill
Greg Popovich- United States Air Force Academy
Bill Cartwright- University of San Francisco
Shakira- UCLA
Avril Lavigne- NONE
Jessica Alba- Atlantic Theater Company
Wyclef Jean- NONE</p>
<p>Milton Friedman-UChicago (actually he’s part of the reason why im matriculating)
Andrew Wiles-Princeton</p>
<p>“Barack Obama- Columbia, Harvard
Bill Richardson- Tufts
Ron Paul- Gettysburg College
Jesse Ventura- North Hennepin Community College
Ralph Nader- Princeton, Harvard
David Shuster- University of Michigan, Georgetown”</p>
<p>That’s an interesting list. You have two centrist liberals, a paleoconservative, a libertarian, and a green.</p>
<p>Anyways, I just wanted to say that Ron Paul got his MD from Duke but went to Gettysburg for undergrad.</p>
<p>BTW, Shuster hates Ron Paul. I do too, but I didn’t choose my heroes to be 2 people opposed to each other.</p>
<p>Shuster will forever be my hero for that pimped out comment.</p>
<p>I like various parts of the Libertarian, Democrat, and Green philosophies. Unifying the three, are against dumb wars like Iraq. Love personal liberties (drugs, prostitution) which we would get in a free society. Think we should take care of our people (Healthcare). Defniitely don’t like the Dems position on abortion though.</p>
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<p>Not quite true. Although Ivys don’t guarantee success, know that there are thousands more graduates who don’t do too well in life. Many people on that list are exceptions. Just a reality check.</p>
<p>This is a dumb thread. A person makes his career, not his school. Absolutely pointless and misleading.</p>
<p>That is clearly what this thread is meant to demonstrate. Read the original post.</p>
<p>Sure, that just implies that 86% of successful people didn’t go to Ivies…:)</p>
<p>Nice thread ^_^</p>
<p>No college education - 2 (Bob Marley and a friend)
CSU Long Beach - 1 (Bradley Nowell)
U of Minnesota Morris - 1 (a friend)
U of Minnesota Duluth - 1 (a friend)</p>
<p>Plus a bunch whose college education or lack thereof is kind of irrelevant:
Jesus Christ, Hillel the Elder, Buddha, St. Francis of Assisi, Henry David Thoreau, and Gandhi</p>
<p>Milton Friedman went to Rutgers as an undergrad. He had a Masters from Chicago (where he also taught), and got his Ph.D. from Columbia.</p>
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<p>I think it’s clear that “influence” means different things to different people. For me, I took people who have inspired me. Inspiration comes in many forms. For example, one of the people who had no college education was my first boss at my first job. She taught me how to do my job, how to approach life, how to overcome obstacles. She is completely brilliant at what she does, and devilishly smart in an academic and intellectual sense. Why no college? I don’t think it fit in with her life plan.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s surprising at all that a lot of the people I find inspirational went to great schools (Oberlin, Carleton, UVA, etc.) particularly because I tend to admire people for their intellectual ability above other things. Some of the schools I listed are not “great” by CC standards, but are awesome nonetheless. What’s to me the kicker is how many people I know didn’t attend an “elite” college-- or any college! And they are no more or less inspiring to me than the people who did.</p>
<p>Morehouse was not MLK, actually, but Spike Lee. Not to say that MLK isn’t an inspiration :-)</p>
<p>And I forgot to include some of my best friends, who are all inspiring to me just by being who they are. They’re all over the map and the USNWR ranks.</p>