<p>Forget that HC has 4 nobel Prize winners and graduated the 1st Director of the Institutes of Medicine, the 1st Director of the Framingham Heart Study, the surgeon who developed intravenous nutrition, … the congressman who coined the term “partial birth abortion”… the Head of UNESCO who got Jesse Helms on board with the UN… the historical captain of Great Britain’s “Chariot’s of Fire” Olympic teams and who also helped found the League of Nations, … artist Maxfield Parrish, … author Nicholson Baker (Monica Lewinsky gifted his books on voyeurism and phone sex to Clinton),… the chairman of Goldman Sachs in the 1980s, … current/recent (last 10 years) chairs of MIT, Johns Hopkins and Swarthmore chemistry, directors of Johns Hopkins and UCSF biomedical research programs, Stanford Business School and Northwestern’s elite journalism school, chief editors for the LA Times and Times Inc (the NY Times), Presidents of Cornell, Earlham, U Washington, Emory, the Archaeological Institute of America, … ect… general managers for 2 major league baseball teams, ect… and Michael Jackson’s defense lawyer.</p>
<p>There’re probably a few other LACs with a similar alumni list. </p>
<p>What sets HC apart isn’t the top notch academics and opportunities that can produce such accomplishment (resources are “Bi-co”, so I guess you can note that Harvard’s current president is a BMC grad) but rather the campus culture unique to the school. </p>
<p>As an example, last week, 188 varsity athletes got up by 630AM on a Saturday to volunteer at Villanova for Special Olympics. </p>
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<p>It’s this combination of rigorous academics and sense of purpose that makes HC the remarkable place it is. :)</p>