<p>So many are coping with the shock that they didnt get into Ivy leagues though they think they deserved it. So lets show them that there's life beyond the Ivies!</p>
<p>I'll start.</p>
<p>Steve Jobs.</p>
<p>Jesus. Tapdancing. Christ.</p>
<p>Add to that a whole bunch of people who went to MIT. :D</p>
<p>um ok i mean those who dint go to Ivy AND MIT AND BERKELY AND OTHER TOP 20 COLLEGES</p>
<p>Steven Jobs</p>
<p>are you serious? ummmm at least 90% of famous people.</p>
<p>Oprah
Jim Henson
Barbara Walters
Sam Walton
vast majority of NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB
Condoleezza Rice
Colin Powell
Maya Angelou</p>
<p>This is going to be an incredibly long thread because most successful people didn't go to Ivies or even top 50 colleges. </p>
<p>On huskem's list: May Angelou, one of our country's top poets, didn't even go to college!</p>
<p>Dan Rather: Sam Houston State Teachers College
Aylwin B. Lewis, CEO Sears, University of Houston, Houston Baptist UG
Sonny Perdue: Ga. governor, U Georgia undergrad and vet school</p>
<p>Jon Corzine: N.J. governor, U of Ill -Urbana, undergrad; MBA U of Chicago
Barbara Boxer: U.S. Senator from Calif. BA Brooklyn College</p>
<p>Charlie Crist: governor, Fla.; FSU undergrad. Cumberland School of Law, law degree
Rita Dove: Pultizer winning poet, former U.S. poet laureate, Miami University of Ohio</p>
<p>Martin O'Malley: Maryland governor; Catholic University BA; U of Maryland Law School
Cynthia Tucker: Pulitzer winning editorial page editor Atlanta Journal, Auburn University</p>
<p>Dick Cheney: U.S. vice president, undergraduate and grad degrees U of Wyoming</p>
<p>Of course there's life beyond the Ivies / MIT / Stanford etc... :) They know that, they're just feeling dejected. Thankfully, there are threads like these to give them some perspective and urge them to stop sulking. Ha ha, I should know, I sulked for two weeks before picking up some good books, looking around me and realizing that - oh my! - the world doesn't end with a few letters of rejection.</p>
<p>Tom Brokaw: dropped out of The University of Iowa, where he says he majored in "beer and co-eds" before receiving his B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion</p>
<p>Harry, you have a featured thread :D</p>
<p>By far most writers did not go to a prestigious school; by far most GREAT writers did not go to a prestigious school. Many did not even go to college (Hemingway, for example).</p>
<p>Fitzgerald went to Princeton, but what do you expect? Steinbeck went to Stanford but kept dropping out. Other than them, I can't really think of others. Some of the post-moderns went to ivies I think (Vonnegut).</p>
<p>But darnit, my point still rests.</p>
<p>Famous authors:</p>
<p>Faulkner: U of Miss. Dropped out
Alice Walker: Spelman, Sarah Lawrence
Toni Morrison: Howard
Amy Tan: Linfield College, San Jose State College</p>
<p>E.l. Doctorow: Kenyon College</p>
<p>Gwendolyn Brooks: Wilson Junior College</p>
<p>Flannery O'Connor: Georgia State College for Women</p>
<p>August Wilson: High School dropout</p>
<p>Edward Albee: Trinity College dropout</p>
<p>Leroy Jenkins</p>
<p>iss that from wow</p>
<p>George Washington</p>
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<p>Let's not forget Marilee Jones (RPI dropout)</p>
<p>William Shakespeare</p>
<p>only 7 of the CEO's of the top 50 corporations went to ivies</p>
<p>neither did Ghandi</p>