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...Garrison Nelson, an expert on the educational background of American presidents, balks at the merest suggestion that Yale’s curriculum was responsible for the glut of candidates this year...
...someone else from your school makes it, it all becomes within your grasp,” Nelson says. Still, he says he is surprised at the strength of Yale’s showing this election cycle, calling it “a vast overrepresentation of one school...
...according to Professor Nelson, academic credentials do matter to the American voter...
...irony is that a lot of these guys are legacies and that if we went on SATs then they’d be somewhere else,” Nelson says...
...lest either institution take too much credit for producing great leaders, Prof. Nelson points out that family connections—more than schooling—were responsible for the success of many elite alums...