<p>remember that a lot of billionares did not graduate college because their ideas were so innovative and out there that college would not have helped them. of course, about .00001% of people who do that turn out to be bill gates and michael dell</p>
<p>Tsinghua University Famous alumni:</p>
<p>Qian Zhongshu - writer
Shiing-shen Chern - mathematician
Chen Ning Yang - physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (physics, 1957)
Zhu Rongji - Premier of the People's Republic of China
Hu Jintao - President of the People's Republic of China
Wen Yiduo - writer, poet</p>
<p>The list will never end...</p>
<p>Barbara Bush a Smithy
Katherine Hepburn Bryn Mawr
Allen Ginsberg Columbia
Walter Cronkite University of Texas</p>
<p>John Kerry went to Yale, the Google people were doing phD's at Stanford.</p>
<p>I am most impressed by the college Abraham Lincoln attended. They educated a truly great man.</p>
<p>Michael Dukakis and James Michener went to Swarthmore. Paul Newman (MY personal favorite) went to Kenyon.</p>
<p>Other famous Kenyon alumni: E.L. Doctorow, Robert Lowell, Jim Borgman, and Jonathan Winters.</p>
<p>can anyone put down sat scores of these people... just curious</p>
<p>Ted Bundy never taught at Stanford! He enrolled in a summer program there, and is suspected to have murdered a woman who was found in the Memorial Church.</p>
<p>A number of prominent people have attend The University of Virginia either undergrad or for grad school like the current U.S. ambassadors to Great Britain, Austria, Romania, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, and Djibouti. </p>
<p>Here are few more:</p>
<p>Woodrow Wilson
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert F. Kennedy
Ted Kennedy (senator, Massachusetts)
Robert Mueller (director, FBI)
John Snow (U.S. Treasury Secretary)
Javier Solanas (former secretary-general, NATO)
Evan Bayh (U.S. senator & former governor, Indiana)
John Warner & George Allen (U.S. senators, Virginia)
Christopher Bond (U.S. senator, Missouri)
Sheila Jackson Lee (U.S. congresswoman, Texas)
Janet Napolitano (governor, Arizona)
Marshall Sanford (governor & former senator, South Carolina)
Gene Franchini (chief justice, New Mexico Supreme Court)
Sam Heiple (chief justice, Illinois Supreme Court)
Daniel Wathen (chief justice, Maine Supreme Court)
Peter Quick (president, American Stock Exchange)
Robert Wright (president, NBC)
Steven Reinemund (president, Pepsi)
Halsey Minor (president & founder, C-Net)
Michael McQuary (president, Earthlink; founder, Mindspring)
Alfred Berkeley (vice-chairman & former president, NASDAQ)
Rebecca Rimel (president, Pew Charitable Trusts)
Leslie M. Baker (chairman & CEO, Wachovia Bank)
Valerie Ackerman (founder, WNBA)
Tim Finchem (commissioner & CEO, Professional Golfing Association)
Daniel Van Clief, Jr. (president, Breeders Cup)
Eric Anderson (president, Space Adventures which arranged millionaire Dennis Titos trip to outer space)
Francis Collins (director, Human Genome Project)
Rich Lowry (editor-in-chief, The National Review)
Katie Couric (co-host, "The Today Show")
Tina Fey (head writer & actress "Saturday Night Live" & "Mean Girls")
Ben McKenzie (actor, "The OC")
Sean Patrick Thomas (actor, Barbershop & Save the Last Dance)
Fred Barnes, Brit Hume & Bob Sellers (hosts, Fox News)
Lewis Allen (Tony Award-winning Broadway producer, "Annie")
Sam Hamm (screenwriter, "Batman")
David Baldacci (author, Absolute Power" & "The Winner)
Stanley Winston (Academy Award-winning special-effects creator, "Terminator" & "Aliens")
Paul J. Witt (Emmy winning-producer, "Golden Girls" & "The Partridge Family")
Mark Johnson (movie producer, Rain Man, Galaxy Quest, Good Morning Vietnam)
Andrew Scheinman (movie producer, "A Few Good Men," "When Harry Met Sally," "Misery," & "The Princess Bride")
Tom Shadyac (movie director, "The Nutty Professor")
Samuel Goldwin, Jr. (producer, Master & Commander)
Deidre Downs (Miss America 2004)
Jessica Lynch (Miss New York 2003)
Andrea Plummer (Miss New York 2001)
Michelle Kang (Miss Virginia 1996)
Tiki Barber (football player, NY Giants)
Ed Moses (Olympic gold medalist, Men's Swimming)
Dawn Staley (Olympic gold medalist, Womens Basketball)
Richard Byrd (polar explorer)
Dr. Walter Reed (who discovered the cure for yellow fever)
John Casteen (president, The University of Virginia)</p>
<p>Martin Luther King Jr., Morehouse, BU
Kofi Annan --Macalester
Oprah - Tennessee State</p>
<p>Chang-Rae Lee (Korean-American Writer): Yale (English), U. Oregon (MFA in Writing)
Wrote 'Native Speaker', 'A Gesture Life', 'Aloft'.</p>
<p>Six people from my old high school (Bronx High School of Science) have won the nobel prize, which is amazing.</p>
<pre><code>* Leon N. Cooper '47, 1972, Brown University
* Melvin Schwartz '49, 1988, Columbia University
* Sheldon L. Glashow '50, 1979, Boston University
* Steven Weinberg '50, 1979, University of Texas at Austin
* Russell A. Hulse '66, 1993, Princeton University
* H. David Politzer '66, 2004, California Institute of Technology
</code></pre>
<p>Toni Morrison -- Howard University, BA, Cornell, MA</p>
<p>Alice Walker: 2 years at Spelman, graduated from Sarah Lawrence</p>
<p>Bob Moses ("Algebra Project," civil rights leader in Miss., MacArthur Genius Award): Hamilton College, BA, Harvard, MA</p>
<p>August Wilson (two times Pulitzer winner for plays): dropped out of high school at age 15.</p>
<p>Lorraine Hansberry -- dropped out of University of Wisconsin</p>
<p>Barbara Jordan -- Texas Southern, Boston University</p>
<p>Thurgood Marshall --Lincoln University, Howard University</p>
<p>I hope after reading this thread people will realize that not getting in to Harvard doesn't mean you can't make a contribution to our world or lead an otherwise successful life. Thanks for all the interesting input.</p>
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<p>I think I went there for some NCSSSMST conference.</p>
<p>That NYU list is lacking Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee. . .</p>
<p>Clinton went to Georgetown for undergrad, not Yale ... he went to Yale Law.</p>
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also killed another found dead in her dorm...i read about it somewhere. god damn disturbing</p>