U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers

Re:U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers by projectramo on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:20AM (#11815055)

I can think of reasons for a lot of the colleges that produce many more congress members than their rank might lead one to guess (Georgetown is in DC, the military academies seem to make sense).

But why is Wesleyan such an outlier? It is a fine school, of course, but so are many of the others. Do they have some powerhouse poli sci program I am unaware of?

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Re:U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers by theklub on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:40AM (#11815275)

Looks like there are many different Wesleyan Universities lumped into one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Wesleyan_University

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Wesleyan_University

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Wesleyan_University

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Re:U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers by projectramo on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:52AM (#11815394)

Oh you think it is an error in that the algorithm was not able to tell them apart from "the" Wesleyan?

http://www.wesleyan.edu/

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Re:U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers by tobobo on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @12:39PM (#11815865)

As a Wesleyan alumn I was very surprised to see it so high, but I think it's likely a scraping error—searching for "Wesleyan University" shows many hits for Ohio Wesleyan, Kentucky Wesleyan, Texas Wesleyan, and so forth.

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Re:U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers by Nicholas_C on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:29AM (#11815144)

Perhaps it's the type of people that choose to go there and/or the families that send them.

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