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I think it's interesting (and somewhat saddening) how the engineering schools on the list tend to be outliers in their rank to legislator ratio. I would assume
by rustyfe 10y ago
I think it's interesting (and somewhat saddening) how the engineering schools on the list tend to be outliers in their rank to legislator ratio.
I would assume it's due to the general breakdown of majors at those schools, but it's still unfortunate that STEM majors don't seem to have a good pathway into political activism.
- ohitsdom 10y ago> it's still unfortunate that STEM majors don't seem to have a good pathway into political activism. How many STEM majors want to be involved in politics? That's a complete field/industry change (not the case for law majors).
- ChazDazzle 10y agoThis is true only in the United States. Not so in China
- maxerickson 10y agoThe association doesn't have to be a degree. I imagine many of the Ivy degrees are MBAs and JDs and the like. That's a path for STEM to follow into politics... There are indeed many advanced degree holders in congress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_111th_United_States_Congress#Education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_111th_United_St...
- jowiar 10y agoThe path isn't that hard, especially during a Presidential election year: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/jobs-and-internships/ https://www.hillaryclinton.com/jobs-and-internships/ (or whoever your candidate of choice is). I worked the Obama campaign in '12. It was a blast, and I met a bunch of awesome people.