<p>"Magazine Names Famous Harvard Rejects
By CHRIS FRANCESCANI
ABC News
(May 23) – Rejected by Harvard? Not a problem. You’re in good company. </p>
<p>The fabled university and some of its well-heeled wannabes will take a lighthearted beating in the press next week, when a magazine created by two of the school’s alumni plans to publish a list of American industry leaders whose applications for admission Harvard reportedly rejected. </p>
<p>The list is, well, impressive. Investor Warren Buffett, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner, NBC “Today” show host Meredith Vieira, former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw, New Yorker magazine editor David Remnick, CNN founder Ted Turner, folk rock legend Art Garfunkel, Matt Groening, creator of the animated television series “The Simpsons,” Sun Microsystems chairman Scott McNealy, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center president Harold Varmus, and Columbia University President Lee Bollinger round out the list. </p>
<p>"Rejected is such a strong word,‘’ Kerry told ABC News’ through a spokesperson. “I prefer to think of it as crimson-challenged & besides I never would have fit in at a total jock school.” </p>
<p>"It’s Harvard that should be embarrassed, not the people on the list,‘’ said Bom Kim, founder of the independent magazine 02138 and a Harvard graduate himself. The Harvard admissions office "accepted [convicted Unabomber] Ted Kaczynski and rejected Warren Buffet. The process is not even close to perfect.‘’</p>
<p>Wow, writing this article was an amazing idea, kudos to Mr. Francescani!</p>
<p>This list is balsam for a great many souls on CC.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure Scott McNealy went to Harvard…</p>
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<p>He definitely did: 1976 BA in Economics</p>
<p>You could also craft an equally illustrious list of Harvard graduates…</p>
<p>or an equally illustrious list of IVY rejections in general…</p>
<p>I think the point is not to say that Harvard doesn’t have the best graduates; rather, it’s saying that one can still be among the best even with a rejection from a school like that. So many people think they’ll be failures in life without a Harvard or a Yale to pull them forward.</p>
<p>That goes to show that attending prestigious school is not a prerequisite to greatness. However it certainly does help facilitate the process…</p>
<p>i think that successful people will be successful no matter what. it’s just that a high concentration of them happen to be in the ivies.</p>
<p>And another thing: umm…the list is also disproportionately full of ivy (or good Liberal arts college) grads…so it doesn’t really prove anything besides the fact that ivy admissions committees don’t always agree with each other. </p>
<p>Buffett went to Wharton, Kerry obviously went to Yale, Remnick went to Princeton, Turner went to Brown, Garfunkel went to Columbia and so on.</p>
<p>So I don’t get the point of it.</p>
<p>Well, Ok, fine, but the article should be a little less misleading:</p>
<p>Ivy League all the same:
Kerry went to Yale Undergrad
Buffet went to Wharton for three years, then transferred to UNebraska. Later went to Columbia Business School
Turner went to Brown, was vice-president of the debate union.
Remnick went to Princeton. BA in comparative Lit.</p>
<p>Other good schools:
Vamus went to Amherst. Viera went to Tufts.</p>
<p>Kids who really pulled themselves up:
Brokaw went to USouth Dakota, Groening to Evergreen State College, Bollinger to UOregon</p>
<p>Jann Wenner I couldn’t find…</p>
<p>funny i postd this in another roon but i think you should google one michael tokarz–</p>
<p>also i pose this question what university’s produce the most ceo’s of top 1000 fortune 1000 comapnies???</p>
<p>Haha MuffinKing, our posts were about the same thing and we just overlapped.</p>
<p>Why wasn’t Kerry that witty when he was running for President? sigh…</p>
<p>Ummm, Matt Groening (Simpsons creator) definitely DID go to Harvard. He lived in Mass Hall his freshman year and actually managed to flood the presidents office when he left his bathtub running.</p>
<p>hey blueskymom, i was reading on wikipedia (which has it from a cited source that i cant remember) that an annual survey by standard & poor’s consistently ranks yale, harvard and stern (nyu) as the three schools with the highest number of alumni in senior executive positions at america’s biggest corporations. check it out if you dont believe me =)</p>
<p>Matt Groening went to Evergreen State.</p>
<p>Kerry`s response that he never would have fit in at a jock school must be his attempt to be funny… I thought his sense of humour had got him into enough hot water</p>
<p>Wow, that’s weird, Groening did go to Evergreen State. Crimson Key tour guides tell a story about Groening in Mass Hall though, so I wonder where we got that from? I know half his writing staff (including Cohen, who he later created Futurama with) attended Harvard…
Anyways, that’s sort of jarring to hear that something you’ve repeated on tours is false</p>
<p>Moral of the story: the ivies reward individuals who have found their most profound passion and devoted all their time to it. Late bloomers, as bright as they may turn out to be, don’t always have a great chance at ivy admission.</p>