Was it the expense for the cab (vehicle) or the medallion, since many places have a limited number of medallions that made them highly valuable in the days before app-based ride share service (Uber / Lyft)?
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I was a kid. I have no specific knowledge of the economics of taxi driving in the 1960âs except my aunt threw a party and my grandmother baked a cake in the shape of a cab.
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Yep, definitely incomplete. Purdue also has 600K + living alumni. Purdue University Alumni Resources and Giving.
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KState Alumni network is great especially if you stay in the region. KState grads often hire KState grads --and they work EVERYWHERE in every industry in this region.
KState is known as having happy students â alumni who have had good experiences during college tend to think fondly on their school.
Itâs not a huge reach.
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Also this list is missing some of the other 7 sisters --friend of mine went to Mount Holyoke --she RAVES about the alumni network and the lifelong friends. She actually went back (from VERY FAR AWAY) to go to her reunion.
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This seems to me to be one of those school profiles that is really hard to nail down, as evidenced by the litany of âX is missingâ posts. It feels a little more measurable, but only
a little more, than the (laughable to me) âmost happy studentsâ rankings, which is a function of how a bunch of kids felt on a given day filling out a survey.
My own âX is missingâ contribution is USC, a school out west that has long been known for its strong alumni connections. It has always been one of the first things people bring up about the school and historically cited as a distinguishing factor from UCLA from back in the days when UCLA was widely regarded as more academically prestigious. The retort was always, âyeah, but the USC people take care of each other.â It is a very enthusiastic alumni base. And mind you, I have no love for or affiliation with the school at all.
As to Town & Country, whatever. I donât mind the rankings, but it seems like everyone is trying to get into the game since Americans are such thirsty consumers of this type of thing. We rank order âgreatest movies of all timeâ for Christâs sake ⊠so weâll rank anything, and this is just another one of those.
Iâd more soon rely on @blossomâs list, if she has one, because of what she does (or did - donât know if youâre retired @blossom ) for a living. Her experience seems particularly well suited to have the general discussion. How alumni networks play out in, say, the banking world, would be best answered by @Catcherinthetoast . And so on.
The other dimension to this is not only the âwhatâ but the âwhereâ. Most alumni networks have geographical areas of strength and weakness.
Hard thing to rank, but as I said, it wonât stop anybody.
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Interesting! In the 1960s the medallions (the rights to drive the cab) cost upwards of $200K in todayâs dollars in NYC.
And hereâs a story from 2018:
Reminds me of how until recently you had to have connections to have a chance of becoming a plumber or electrician, and in some places you still do. "Itâs not what you know, itâs who you know. "
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I never knew what any of my college friendsâ parents did for a living and donât remember having a sense of who had money (other than some had nicer clothes). I did go to a relatively rural state school though. My older daughter knows what all of her college friendsâ parents do for a living and networked with many of them during and after her college years.
I do think my older daughter has benefited from being an alumna of UNC. Their alumni network is huge, especially in NC. She received a finance internship at bank with many UNC alumni, who she interviewed with and spoke to during networking events. It helped to have something in common in those situations (UNC had just won the national basketball title, so there was a lot of UNC comradery). She was hired at the end of her internship and worked in an office with three of her sorority sisters who had graduated a couple of years before her. I canât prove that her being a UNC alumni got her the job, but I believe it got her in the door.
My younger daughter is more on the introverted side so itâs harder for me to imagine her initiating help from an alum, but stranger things have happened! Itâs good to know the network is there, and that there are a lot of alums in our city.
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Know what my friendsâ parents did? Heck, I didnât even know my Dad had a fake passport/papers until I was an adult. I never even got to see his office (from when I was 6th grade until he retired)
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How is St. Lawrence not on this list? They not only have a crazy in sane strong alumni network but they have had one for more than 50 years and going strong⊠I know crazy close knit alums/I am not an alum.
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When you are in 7th grade Home Ec and the entire class is invited to a friendâs dads fabric store to pick out the yard we each needed for our first project (an ugly apron), you remember what your friends parents did for a living!
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Hopping in to reinforce how strong the historically womensâ college alumnae/i network is. My daughter attended the Congressional baseball game last night and wisely wore her Smith College ball capâshe was stopped by several people with ties to Smith, not just those who had attended themselves. In fact the Democratic Whip Katherine Clark stopped her to tell her her grandmother was a Smithie.
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So happy to read this as my kiddo is headed to VT in the fall.
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For example, when considered by category, the list includes five public universties, three universities under the auspices of Catholicism, two Ivies, a NESCAC, a Claremont and a Sister.
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