<p>Thought this was a thoughtful piece and knowing quite a few Yalies over the years, know she isn't the only one feeling this way.</p>
<p>It's kind of true though, the Quinnipiac girls who come here dress like straight-up sluts! I don't think they would deny it.</p>
<p>Is that the same thing as a cheerleader??</p>
<p>Sure,
She makes good points.</p>
<p>Does it make sense to value a Yale education only by how much money you earn after graduation though?</p>
<p>Well, I think she was just trying to put numerical value on education, basically saying that a hard-worker from a UC can make just as much as a hard-working Yalie (pretty much the power to get a good education comes from the work ethic of the person, not the school). And, a good way to put a numerical value on it is how much one makes after graduation (measuring how well one can apply and make use of the knowledge attained in college).</p>
<p>I guess, but I'm sure I read in Yale's mission statement that basically "Yale values learning for what it is and not for economic profit". Wish I could find the exact statement, but it's still obvious that Yale does not place very much emphasis on practical skills as other universities offering business degrees etc. do.</p>
<p>Arguably, the pecuniary benefits of going to Yale (or a similar institution) are really only a part of the bigger picture that is the whole experience. And still Yalies who really want to tend to make big buck.</p>
<p>Just a thought.</p>
<p>My favorite part of the article is the bit about Princeton:</p>
<p>"An eating club at Princeton hosts a semiannual "State School Night," for which the young men set aside their pastel Lacoste polos and don big T-shirts, chains and beanies, and the women set aside their Lilly Pulitzer dresses and squeeze into revealing tops and skirts. The event is amply attended and gives Princetonians an opportunity to get trashed and act promiscuous. Without a doubt, their revelry comes at the expense of their own karma."</p>
<p>I have to say that that mission statement is not entirely true. Though there are a few of us who still love learning for the hell of it, most people go to college for economic profit.</p>
<p>Can't really say that it's wrong, it just happens to be Yale College's mission statement. I'm sure you'll find a similar clause at most liberal arts colleges. You're free to go to school just for the money, but it's not what Yale college stands for. At least it's not the primordial concern.</p>
<p>Still, a better-educated person tends to add more value to many things in general, therfore getting a better salary.</p>
<p>She tries to put a statistical spin on it, but the truth is that half of senators DO graduate from ivies, and CEOs at successful companies clearly over-represent elite private schools.</p>
<p>^linkage and quotage, por favor.</p>
<p>iv4me- that's completely wrong</p>
<p>eh, let's look at this list of senators:</p>
<p>shelby - U of Alabama law
sessions - U of Alabama law
stevens - harvard law
murkowski - georgetown ba
mccain - naval academy
kyl - university of arizona
lincoln - u of arkansas law
pryor - u of arkansas law
feinstein - stanford
boxer - brooklyn college
allard - Vet Medicine Colorado State U
salazar - UMich law
Dodd - U of Louisville Law
Lieberman - yale/yale law
biden - syracuse university college of law
carper - OSU
nelson - yale
martinez - FSU law
Chambliss - Utennessee law
Isakson - U of Georgia
Inouye - George Washington U law
Akaka - U of Hawaii
craig - U of Idaho
crapo - Harvard law
durbin - georgetown law
obama - Uchicago law
lugar - denison (rhodes scholar)
bayh - UVa Law
Grassley - University of Northern Iowa
Harkin - Catholic University of America Law
Brownback - University of Kansas law
Roberts - Kansas State University
Mcconnell - University of Kentucky Law
Bunning - Xavier University (and HoF baseball player)
Landrieu - Louisiana State University
Vitter - Harvard, Oxford (rhodes), tulane
Snowe - University of Maine
collins - st. lawrence U
sarbanes - princeton, harvard law (+ rhodes)
Mikulski - University of maryland
Kennedy - Harvard, UVa law
Kerry - Yale
Levin - Swarthmore, Harvard Law
Stabenow - Michigan State U
dayton - Yale
coleman - University of Iowa Law
Cochran - UMissisisippi law
Lott - UMissisisipi law
bond - Princeton, UVa Law
Talent - Wustl, Uchicago law
Baucus - Stanford/stanford law
burns - University of Missouri
hagel - U Nebraska
nelson - U Nebraska/U Nebraska law
Reid - GW university law
ensign - OregonStateUniversity, ColoradoState University
Gregg - Columbia, BU law
Sununu - MIT, Harvard MBA
Lautenberg - columbia
Menendez - Rutgers Law
Domenici - U of Denver Law
Bingaman - Harvard, Stanford Law
Schumer - Harvard, Harvard Law
Clinton - Wellesley, Yale Law
Dole - Duke, Harvard, Harvard Law
Burr - Wake Forest
Conrad - Stanford, GW Law
Dorgan - U Denver MBA
DeWine - Miami University
Voinovich - OSU Law
Inhofe - U of Tulsa
Coburn - Oklahoma State University
Wyden - Stanford, University of Oregon Law
Smith - BYU
Specter - UPenn, yale Law
Santorum - Pennstate, UPitt MBA
Reed - USMA, Harvard
chafee - Montana State
Graham - University South Carolina
DeMint - UTennesse, Clemson
Johnson - MichState, USDakota
Thune - Biola, UnivSouthDakota law
frist- Princeton, Harvard Med
Alexander - Vanderbilt, NYU Law
Hutchinson - UTAustin, UTAustin Law
Cornyn - UVa Law
hatch - BYU, UPitt Law
Bennett - University of Utah
Leahy - Georgetown Law
Jeffords - Yale, Harvard Law
Warner - Wash+Lee, UVa law
Allen - UVa, UVa Law
Murray - Washington State
Cantwell - Miami of Ohio
Byrd - multiple in WVa
Rockefeller - Harvard
Kohl - UW, Harvard MBA
feingold - UW, Oxford (rhodes), harvard law
thomas -University of Wyoming
Enzi - GeorgeWash U, UDenver</p>
<p>Wrong distribution - Senatorial distribution is often (actually VERY often) simply a surrogate for family wealth. You get a somewhat more accurate distribution of the contribution of college to achievement by looking at congresspeople.</p>
<p>wow, someone had a lot of time on their hands. I'm impressed. But please don't kill yourself trying to find the alma maters of all 435 reps.</p>
<p>Sen. Obama went to Harvard Law School, not U Chicago</p>