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? The sitting President went to the university of Delaware (state school). Ford went to Michigan, Johnson to Texas State… West Point and the Naval academy both

? The sitting President went to the university of Delaware (state school). Ford went to Michigan, Johnson to Texas State… West Point and the Naval academy both have a few graduates who made it to top office (these are high prestige but they are the only purely public schools in America (all cost paid by the government). William and Mary can also claim a few Presidents…

nicksiscoe 5y ago
To be fair, those are a few exceptions that buck a greater trend of Presidents and lawmakers almost universally attending expensive and prestigious undergrad and graduate institutions
- vehemenz 5y ago
  Politicians have to be wealthy and connected, so it's not too surprising that they attend elite institutions. I see it as more of a correlation than a requirement.
- drewcoo 5y ago
  That's actually a large amount of recent Presidents because Presidents are such a small group. I'm pretty sure Carter went to a state school. Reagan went to a private school that was certainly not an ivy. We have to dig all the way back to Truman to find a President who never attended to college, so there's definitely "a greater trend of Presidents" to be college-educated.