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Yeah, don't discount the fact that our past 3 presidents went to Yale not Harvard
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<p>Uh, George W. Bush gos his MBA at Harvard Business School.</p>
<p>Granted, you could argue that HBS is a graduate school and hence shouldn't count. But then you can't really count Bill Clinton either, as he went to Yale for law school.</p>
<p>You have to look at where they made most of their important political connections, and also where they go back for reunions, to see what their true "affiliations" might be. Both Bush and Clinton made most of their "important" connections at Yale. For example, Clinton got an early start in politics by working on Joe Lieberman's (another Yalie) first campaign while he was a student at Yale, and also met Hillary there, as well as many other lifelong friends eventually in important positions. He also had a few important contacts from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar - read his biography, which goes into great detail on his life, and you'll see what I mean. On the contrary, Bush really didn't get much if anything out of HBS - many of his closest friends and associates were undergraduate colleages from Yale. He also had contacts through his father and grandfather, who were both also Yalies. In general, Yale produces unusually strong interpersonal networks because it is of a much smaller size (both geographically and enrollment wise) than other top universities, and also (probably for that reason) tends to attract students who are very social.</p>