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In a recent study, we investigated how many of the wealthiest and most influential people graduated college. We studied 11,745 U.S. leaders, including CEOs, federal judges, politicians, multi-millionaires and billionaires, business leaders and the most globally powerful men and women.
We found about 94 percent of these U.S. leaders attended college, and about 50 percent attended an elite school. Though almost everyone went to college, elite school attendance varied widely. For instance, only 20.6 percent of House members and 33.8 percent of 30-millionaires attended an elite school, but over 80 percent of Forbes' most powerful people did. For whatever reason, about twice as many senators – 41 percent – as House members went to elite schools.
For comparison, based on census and college data, we estimate that only about 2 to 5 percent of all U.S. undergraduates went to one of the elite schools in our study. The people from our study attended elite schools at rates well above typical expectations.
Why waste $150,000 on an education you could get for $1.50 in late fees at the public library?
(Score: 2) by eravnrekaree on Friday April 21 2017, @08:18PM
The reason for the statistics is not that college produces geniuses but that its a way to keep the same elite families in power. Look at the average politician and large corporations in the USA, companies like GM which were destroyed by these geniuses and the fact that politicians have run the country trillions into debt, started pointless wars, etc. It contradicts the idea that they are where they are because of merit. Its due to the elite cabal who keep the same families in power and the only point of elite college is to keep these famileis in power, the ive league is sort of like a certificate of belonging in the elite cabal where elite parents certify their children to be elite like themselves.