<p>So guys, which school do you think has the strongest political circle?</p>
<p>This means that there are many aspiring presidents of the united states at the school. People who want to be world leaders.</p>
<p>I get the perception that Yale is, considering the number of presidents that have Yale as their alma mater, but i may be wrong. Princeton is sure strong too. or Stanford? maybe West Point?</p>
<p>(This is for undergraduate schools)</p>
<p>I’m not a reliable source, but probably Georgetown.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of Claremont students have high political aspirations, although for being a fairly new school in relation to the old schools, it may explain the lack of presidents who were alums.</p>
<p>The usual characters of the aristocracy like Yale, Princeton, Harvard etc are going to have the highest numbers of former presidents as alumni. That being said, I think that you could have success in political science anywhere and you should focus less on your undergrad institution and more on your law or graduate institution.</p>
<p>I would include Columbia and Michigan in the list, if there’s such a list.</p>
<p>the current occupant of the White House would probably recommend looking for the highest rate of community activism. Such colleges as Wesleyan, Oberlin, Occidental, UCal-Berkeley, Howard U., Morehouse and Spelman come to mind.</p>
<p>The typical Ivies (Yale, Harvard, and Princeton) have the highest rate of big-time politicians I would assume. Of course there are others like Columbia (Obama) and the Military academies (McCain-Naval Academy). I think the big state flagships put out there share of politicians too. One of our senators, Mel Martinez, went to UF I believe. And our Governor, Charlie Crist, went to FSU. So you certainly don’t have to go to an Ivy level school to make it big… heck, Sarah Palin went to like 6 third tier schools! hahaha</p>
<p>Mel Martinez went to The Florida State University and so did Charlie Crist, Florida’s Governor. Florida politics are completely dominated by FSU grads. </p>
<p>Check out this list for reference:</p>
<p>[List</a> of Florida State University people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida_State_University_alumni]List”>List of Florida State University people - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Aspiring presidents mostly went to Harvard and Yale. We had Bush I v. Dukakis 1988 (Yale v. Harvard Law), Bush I v. Clinton 1992 (Yale v. Yale Law), Clinton v. Dole 1996 (Yale Law v. Kansas), Bush II v. Gore 2000 (Yale v. Harvard), Bush II v. Kerry 2004 (Yale v. Yale), and Obama v. McCain 2008 (Harvard Law v. Navy). You have to go back to 1984, Reagan (Eureka) v. Mondale (Minnesota) to the last time no Yale or Harvard graduate was nominated by either of the two parties.</p>
<p>[List</a> of Georgetown University alumni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Georgetown_University_alumni]List”>List of Georgetown University alumni - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Georgetown has five current US Senators, four current US State and Territory Governors and 13 current House members. It is one of seven schools with a current Supreme Court Justice. President Obama’s National Security Advisor and the current Secretary of Defense are alumni.</p>
<p>Internationally, three current Heads of State of Alumni.</p>
<p>Two successful Us Presidents are from Georgtown:President Clinton was Class of 1968 and President Johnson attended Georgetown Law School.</p>
<p>All the universities in the Washington D.C area, plus top Ivy Leagues such as Yale, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennslyvania etc…</p>
<p>Dartmouth: two Secretaries of Treasure in a roll: Henry Paulson and Tim Geithner; two Secretaries of Labor recently: Robert Reich and Elaine Chao (Chao attended Dartmouth as an exchange students). The lady who just succeeded Hillary Clinton as a senator from NY is also a Dartmouth graduate. I don’t know whether you regard these guys as big-time politicans or not.</p>
<p>Take out the graduate schools, and in the 20th-21st Century Century, you end up among the Presidents with a list of schools that includes Mount Union/Allegheny Colleges, Ohio Central College, Southwest Texas State Teachers College, Whittier College, Georgia Tech, Georgia Southwestern State, Eureka College, Occidental College, and no college at all.</p>
<p>I would say Yale has dominated. As for other ivies obviously Harvard. Columbia has made up a lot of ground with Obama, and three cabinet positions and the NY governor. I suspect Gtown has great status too.</p>
<p>You have a better chance of getting to know the high ranking politicians by escorting in DC.</p>
<p>^ Both funny and true. All those dodged tax expenses have to be spent somewhere!</p>