re: Top 20 colleges with most billionaire alumni

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I was responding to his 'i want to know who made their own money' comment. Who cares?

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Well, I would suggest it matters if we're trying to parse what this list may be trying to tell us.

If I know the billionaires are "self-made" I may infer that the school's academic environment creates a place that helps breed billionaires, as opposed to a place that merely accepts the offspring of such people for tuition and donor money.

The first school I'd want to try to get my child into over the latter, so they can be in an environment that I'd believe would be more beneficial to them making their way in life.

There's nothing wrong with inheriting wealth, but I'm more interested in the skills that help one create wealth.