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<p>Face off between your spouses school or your kids, or your stuffy neighbors…or whoever!</p>
<p>Though not scientific, this Michigan fan is smiling a bit as UM vs. OSU has UM 2.67 more times influential 
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<p>Just for fun guys!!! :)</p>
<p>love it! We’re also 2.63 times more influential than Duke! </p>
<p>My S’s school is apparently 1.01 times as influential as UM. I call that a statistical draw. :)</p>
<p>So I compared my children’s colleges against each other - Bates and Hampshire. David Hasselhoff is a Bates alum??? And he’s ranked as more influential then Ken Burns? <strong>faints</strong> This was so funny!</p>
<p>BTMell-
I’m a Bates alum and I had no idea the Hoff attended Bates. I guess the school wasn’t excited about claiming him. 
I’m more of a reader that a TV watcher so I think I’d rather claim Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout.
Bates seems to get influence points because of the inclusion of Desmond Tutu and Paul Volcker. Alas, their Bates degrees were honorary, which wouldn’t count in my book.</p>
<p>Any weighting on class size? “The University of Florida is 2.76 times more influential than Johns Hopkins”… " - Methinks FL is a lot bigger than Hopkins… </p>
<p>@Sue22 - that made me laugh. Sort of like Tulane and Jerry Springer :-& I saw Tutu and wondered about him and hadn’t had time to Google. And interesting that Muskie wasn’t mentioned. Oh well, I guess it wasn’t that scientific. Oh and for your listening pleasure, here’s the commercial that was airing in our parts. Total earworm! <a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube;
<p>Fun.
Although it had Carri Brownstein attending both WWU & Evergreen.
And misses a recent Academy award winner from WWU, but it mentions a friend of Ds.
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<p>It’s stupid to put count honorary degrees. I googled Hasselholf and he only attended Bates. He graduated from Cal Institute of the Arts and in between those two, went to Oakland Univ. He shouldn’t count either. </p>
<p>My H’s school (SU) is 2.10 x more influential than mine (CU) but my graduate school (Chicago) is 1.90 x more than his (SU) </p>
<p>Since I also have a Masters from SU, I think I win. </p>
<p>^^^ I feel better now! Then again, he WAS in the Spongebob movie so he can’t be all bad. And you definitely win! H and I both went to Tulane for graduate school so I guess that’s a wash. And we both went to state schools undergrad but I should check that out.</p>
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<p>They only used live “influencers.” How’s this for scientific? They based the level of influence on the length of the person’s Wikipedia page. That would make William Shatner more influential that EO Wilson or Stephen Hawkins. ^:-/</p>
<p>And the Hoff? Somehow I just can’t picture him at Bates. That little red bathing suit would not be suitable for winters in Lewiston, ME!</p>
<p>“University of Texas at Austin is 2.56 times more influential than Dartmouth College”</p>
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<p>Oh no @Sue22 - I’m visuallllll! <em>wanders off to find some brain bleach</em> My Bates boy said that Hasselhoff was a trivia question during his AESOP trip!</p>
<p>Actually, the Hoff’s little red bathing suit was first unveiled during the Bates puddle jump. </p>
<p>(N.B.: May not be an actual fact.)</p>
<p>Pass the brain bleach.</p>
<p>Love it! University of Michigan 5.13 times more influential than Dartmouth, 3.66 times more influential than Brown, 2.85 times more influential than Penn, 1.97 times more influential than Cornell, 1.29 times more influential than Princeton, 1.08 times more influential than Yale. Among Ivies, Michigan is bested only by Columbia (1.01 times more influential, a virtual tie) and Harvard (1.89 times more influential, but we can live with that—Harvard clobbers everyone).</p>
<p>Michigan also 8.22 times more influential than Caltech, 3.51 times more influential than UVA, 2.94 times more influential than Notre Dame, 2.63 times more influential than Duke, 2.63 times more influential than the University of Chicago, 2.03 times more influential than MIT, 1.34 times more influential than UC Berkeley, 1.14 times more influential than Stanford, 1.08 times more influential than UCLA.</p>
<p>Among Big Ten schools, Michigan is 9.25 times more influential than Indiana, 6.02 times more influential than Nebraska, 5.13 times more influential than Iowa, 4.97 times more influential than Purdue, 4.14 times more influential than Penn State, 3.50 times more influential than Illinois, 3.43 times more influential than Michigan State, 3.18 times more influential than Northwestern, 2.95 times more influential than Minnesota, 2.67 times more influential than Ohio State, 2.34 times more influential than Wisconsin.</p>
<p>Hey, wait a minute . . . did a Michigan alum write this?</p>
<p>Apparently Time knows something the rest of us don’t. It lists Jimmy Hoffa as one of U Michigan’s living alumni!</p>
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<p>I believe that would be James P. Hoffa, a graduate of Michigan State University (1963) and the University of Michigan Law School (1966), who is very much alive. James P. Hoffa is a labor lawyer and the current president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a union formerly headed by his late father, James R. “Jimmy” Hoffa who disappeared in 1975. The late Jimmy Hoffa left school at the age of 14, which obviously means no college or university can claim him as an alumnus, living or dead. </p>
<p>I matched Bowdoin to U Alabama. </p>
<p>“University of Alabama is 6.24 times more influential than Bowdoin College.”</p>
<p>Alabama was deemed superior because of extremely influential football players and coaches. </p>
<p>Thank Horus for football, thank Horus for Civilization.</p>
<p>Geez, what a garbage application, but at least I didn’t shell out $5 for it.</p>
<p>Oh, and this:</p>
<p>“University of Alabama is 2.58 times more influential than Harvard Medical School.”</p>
<p>Are y’all ready for sum fooball?</p>