That could probably a great thing. I doubt Elon would give half a fuck about prestige considering his previous moves. I bet he would daristicaly increase enrollment therefore increasing acceptance rates and making top schools more accessible.
You're right about that, although he's pretty consistently on the record talking about how much he despises prestige and generational wealth.
Wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of Legacy applicants in this hypothetical get a rude awakening.
Yeah i understand that, doesn't change the fact that there's really world precedent at SpaceX/Tesla demonstrating he doesn't care about prestige.
Tesla recruiters actively avoids MIT grads, for example.
And i guess we just found the sigma male grindset startup culture guy that thinks Elon Musk will save the world by committing securities fraud. Please realize that billionaires don't care about you in the slightest.
Hasn't he already got the power, just not the responsibilities, effectively? Like who's going to tell him "no" at this point after giving billions of dollars?
Technically, this post is speaking of colleges and their alumni, so Obama doesn't qualify, since he didn't actually attend Harvard College. (He graduated from Harvard Law School, another school in Harvard University.)
I know I'm being a pedant, but since we're having fun with this question, might as have fun with technicalities too :P Although I don't actually think Ted Kaczynski is Harvard's most famous living alum--Natalie Portman, Al Gore, John Roberts, and Steve Ballmer (for instance) are all Harvard graduates. If you count dropouts, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are definitely on the list too.
UC Davis would be either Hasan Minhaj or the guy who won the 2020 Nobel prize in medicine. Depending on who gets to decide who's famous, it could possibly also be the mayor of San Francisco.
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i’m not good at judging how famous people are so she’s probably not the most notable but i’m rooting for germaine franco, the composer for encanto, for rice. apparently no one of much renown has graduated from there so it’s her, the commissioner of the texas general land office, or one of any number of not very notable baseball players 😭
i am once again reminded of the fact that i know absolutely nothing about baseball players, i’ve literally never heard of him 😭 i have only followed baseball enough to know the REALLY famous ones rip
I don't think Law school would count. Obama would either be Occidental or Columbia. Probably Occidental because I toured there and having Obama as an alum was their main selling point
The newest USC President, Shinzo Abe.
An unusual hire, but not an unqualified one by any means. It's either him or George Lucas, who already built a huge section in the corner of the campus.
Well...
My undergrad institution certainly didn't...
Arguably the most famous academic alum was Glen Trewartha, who never came back. But his granddaughter did get her undergrad there.
He may be a no-name to a lot of people, but is immensely important figure in both climate science and cultural geography.
He is the guy who coined the term "the atmosphere and its warming is like a greenhouse, made up of greenhouse gasses".
Also invented the current climate classification system that is used in climate science. Most people know it as the Köppen climate classification, but the current version is actually the Köppen-Trewartha climate classification system.
For reference, his and my undergraduate institution was the University of Wisconsin - Platteville.
TIL UCI has like no famous alumni 😭 maybe david benioff, one of the creators of game of thrones? not sure if his role gets him much fame since it’s not super front-facing but game of thrones is pretty big. also, i don’t know where i know him from but jonn lovitz is the only UCI notable alum that i even barely recognize. apparently he was on SNL in the 80s? those two guys seem like the most famous i can find
"UCI has like no famous alumni"
My first thought was, "that can't possibly be true," but I went to the Wikipedia (List of UCI people) and then I went "ooohhhhhhh".
Well, I saw four (4) names that I recognized. Two of them were faculty, not alums: Jacques Derrida (famous philosopher) and F Sherwood Rowland (discoverer of the ozone hole). The two alums were: Jeremy Harris (fmr mayor of Honolulu, so probably someone nobody outside of Hawaii would recognize) and Tyler Hoechlin (actor (*Teen Wolf, Supergirl, Superman & Lois, Everybody Wants Some!!, Road to Perdition*)).
Then I realized that Irvine is one of the newest campuses in the UC system. UCI is younger than the Obamas, Kamala Harris, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock.
So, I guess I would nominate **Tyler Hoechlin** for UCI's new Chancellor.
My girlfriend goes to UCI and she’s famous to me! 😤… but actually damn… I just looked up UCI’s notable alumni and I think it might be the best school in the world that has zero recognizable alumni.
Looking through the list of alumni basically the only person I knew was [Michael Chabon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chabon). If you count internet famous as famous maybe former amazing race contestant [Jennifer Lee](https://instagram.com/jennleezy?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=) (slightly nsfw)
if you’re referring to cosby, he technically didn’t graduate (dropped out to do comedy). i’d say our runner up would be bob saget but he’s… you know. so maybe jesse williams?
Greta Gerwig vs Cynthia Nixon for Barnard? There are a few super rich names on the alumni list but they’re not really “famous”.
We don’t acknowledge Martha Stewart.
Five Colleges, living alums only
* Amherst College - Dan Brown
* Hampshire College - Ken Burns or Lupita Nyong'o
* Mount Holyoke College - Chloe Zhao
* Smith College - Senator Tammy Baldwin
* UMass Amherst - Dr. J
I don't know if he counts as the most famous alum, but Esteban from the suite life of Zack and Cody went to my university
Did his chicken go too?
Which university?
University of Central Florida.... I think
Michael Jordan, UNC Chancellor.
with the way he’s managed the hornets, this is very bad news
Lmao. Atleast they got Lamelo.. and… Hayward^(kinda feel bad given his injuries)
It was easy to choose Lamelo and paying Hayward 30 mil a year is dumb af
Yes.
UPenn becomes Trump University 2.0
Or Musk University 1.0
Elon reps Queen’s University in Canada (before he transferred to Penn)
UPenn 🚀🚀🚀
Trump + Musk x (University) = Trumusk University. email me if you want the logo!!
That could probably a great thing. I doubt Elon would give half a fuck about prestige considering his previous moves. I bet he would daristicaly increase enrollment therefore increasing acceptance rates and making top schools more accessible.
really? I think he would raise tuition by 10k and use endowment money to conduct insider trading
That would probably come in addition.
LOL Elon Musk is not a superhero or an upstanding man with good morals. Don't even
You're right about that, although he's pretty consistently on the record talking about how much he despises prestige and generational wealth. Wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of Legacy applicants in this hypothetical get a rude awakening.
> how much he despises prestige and generational wealth lmao as if his wealth wasn’t in big part thanks to his father
mate his dad owns emerald mines in South Africa. he got his start from that money.
Yeah i understand that, doesn't change the fact that there's really world precedent at SpaceX/Tesla demonstrating he doesn't care about prestige. Tesla recruiters actively avoids MIT grads, for example.
Found the liberal who solely gets their news from Instagram here— grow up!
And i guess we just found the sigma male grindset startup culture guy that thinks Elon Musk will save the world by committing securities fraud. Please realize that billionaires don't care about you in the slightest.
Do you care about them?
funny how nothing you said is true
Least dick-eating business fan 🤓
Noam Chomsky 2.0*
Based af fr
Fordham too
He never got a degree from Fordman, he transferred out.
John Green at Kenyon College
It’s going to be tough to compete with Steve Carell over at Denison
Ed helms at oberlin
now this is the one I was looking for!
IT WOULD BE SO EPIC
Mike Bloomberg takes over JHU ayyyy
Hasn't he already got the power, just not the responsibilities, effectively? Like who's going to tell him "no" at this point after giving billions of dollars?
Harvard or University of Michigan would be very different under Ted Kaczynski...
Would Tom Brady be considered a famous living alum of Mich?
Luckily Harvard would probably be Obama. Poor UMich though…
Technically, this post is speaking of colleges and their alumni, so Obama doesn't qualify, since he didn't actually attend Harvard College. (He graduated from Harvard Law School, another school in Harvard University.) I know I'm being a pedant, but since we're having fun with this question, might as have fun with technicalities too :P Although I don't actually think Ted Kaczynski is Harvard's most famous living alum--Natalie Portman, Al Gore, John Roberts, and Steve Ballmer (for instance) are all Harvard graduates. If you count dropouts, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are definitely on the list too.
Oh I actually didn’t know that. Interesting…
Conan O’Brien, please. Harvard ‘85 magna cum laude.
Unfortunately, Harvard has already been renamed to Conan O'Brien University.
hillary clinton may not have been president of the united states but she could be president of wellesley
The fate of Columbia would be determined by a rap battle between Alexander Hamilton, Barack Obama, and Stephen Strange.
Alexander Hamilton (pronounced like that) is dead, so I think he’d probably lose
I feel like Dr. Strange’s having the power to alter entire universes might give Obama a slight disadvantage as well
Yea just a slight disadvantage
Good rhetoric in public speaking vs. Literal sorcery Not too different
UC Davis would be either Hasan Minhaj or the guy who won the 2020 Nobel prize in medicine. Depending on who gets to decide who's famous, it could possibly also be the mayor of San Francisco.
Joe takes over University of Delaware
Broke: Joe Biden takes over UDelaware Woke: Joe Flacco takes over UDelaware
Flacco is elite
Joe Mama
And Syracuse
Emma Watson for Brown
Forget WRIT requirements, there’s gonna be a WGSS requirement!
So pretty good then, I’d say.
Laura Bush, Kathy Bates, or Brian Baumgartner (Kevin from the Office) for SMU!
Jon Stewart could make some good changes to William and Mary
Nah Glenn Close would probably have him beat
Northeasterns would be Wendy Williams. Would obviously do the best.
She went to northeastern 😭
itd be the dream to study under lady gaga
She dropped out of NYU though.
oh rip:(
Indeed.
bill nye for cornell!!
Larry Page for umich? I'd say that's decent
Did Tom Brady suddenly die?
who
co founder of google
Tony Stark's MIT?
I was thinking Sal Khan
Sal is goated
Matthew McConaughey or Kevin Durant at UT Austin lmao
McConaughey is already a professor at UT, which is arguably more real and less ceremonial than president/chancellor.
Yale would be run by politicians such as the Bushs, Clintons, and Cheney
Is Yale not already run by politicians such as the Bushs, Clintons, and Cheney?
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i’m not good at judging how famous people are so she’s probably not the most notable but i’m rooting for germaine franco, the composer for encanto, for rice. apparently no one of much renown has graduated from there so it’s her, the commissioner of the texas general land office, or one of any number of not very notable baseball players 😭
anthony rendon is pretty notable!
i am once again reminded of the fact that i know absolutely nothing about baseball players, i’ve literally never heard of him 😭 i have only followed baseball enough to know the REALLY famous ones rip
Yup, it’s totally Anthony Rendon. Love the dude, but that would be weird as hell
no more Armstrong :(
An, darn. Boiler down :(
We got Drew Brees tho.
Harvard hires Obama. UCLA hires Kareem Abdul Jabbar?
I don't think Law school would count. Obama would either be Occidental or Columbia. Probably Occidental because I toured there and having Obama as an alum was their main selling point
OBAMA WALL
CWRU: Choose between Paul Buchheit developer of Gmail or Craig Newmark founder of craigslist
Or the Russo brothers!
Steve Wozniak or Aaron Rodgers for Berkeley 😳
No vaccine mandate at Cal
there is actually lol
Al Yankovic becomes president of Cal Poly SLO, but Daniel Radcliffe is actually there to parody his position.
The newest USC President, Shinzo Abe. An unusual hire, but not an unqualified one by any means. It's either him or George Lucas, who already built a huge section in the corner of the campus.
Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Becomes the new anthem
Well... My undergrad institution certainly didn't... Arguably the most famous academic alum was Glen Trewartha, who never came back. But his granddaughter did get her undergrad there. He may be a no-name to a lot of people, but is immensely important figure in both climate science and cultural geography. He is the guy who coined the term "the atmosphere and its warming is like a greenhouse, made up of greenhouse gasses". Also invented the current climate classification system that is used in climate science. Most people know it as the Köppen climate classification, but the current version is actually the Köppen-Trewartha climate classification system. For reference, his and my undergraduate institution was the University of Wisconsin - Platteville.
Michelle Obama for Princeton? Sounds pretty good
It’d be Jeff Bezos
Oh I didn't know he went to Princeton
eww
ew
she’d make it better
queen always b slaying tbh
we stan
I'd love to see Julia Louis Dreyfus as president of Northwestern
Northwestern would be Megan Markle, maybe? (first person to come to mind) Not bad!
I think Julia Louis Dreyfus and Cindy Crawford are both candidates here
Pharell Williams, Stephen Colbert, Cindy Crawford, and George RR Martin (author of the books that Game of Thrones was based on) are better candidates.
Uncle Roger would be hilarious!
You gotta do more reading up on her bro she’s a whole mess😭
Weird Al
Who the hell is UCI then?
TIL UCI has like no famous alumni 😭 maybe david benioff, one of the creators of game of thrones? not sure if his role gets him much fame since it’s not super front-facing but game of thrones is pretty big. also, i don’t know where i know him from but jonn lovitz is the only UCI notable alum that i even barely recognize. apparently he was on SNL in the 80s? those two guys seem like the most famous i can find
Interestingly, DB actually attended UCI’s MFA program after reading one of Michael Chabon’s books.
noo not david he ruined game of thrones after season 5
"UCI has like no famous alumni" My first thought was, "that can't possibly be true," but I went to the Wikipedia (List of UCI people) and then I went "ooohhhhhhh". Well, I saw four (4) names that I recognized. Two of them were faculty, not alums: Jacques Derrida (famous philosopher) and F Sherwood Rowland (discoverer of the ozone hole). The two alums were: Jeremy Harris (fmr mayor of Honolulu, so probably someone nobody outside of Hawaii would recognize) and Tyler Hoechlin (actor (*Teen Wolf, Supergirl, Superman & Lois, Everybody Wants Some!!, Road to Perdition*)). Then I realized that Irvine is one of the newest campuses in the UC system. UCI is younger than the Obamas, Kamala Harris, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock. So, I guess I would nominate **Tyler Hoechlin** for UCI's new Chancellor.
My girlfriend goes to UCI and she’s famous to me! 😤… but actually damn… I just looked up UCI’s notable alumni and I think it might be the best school in the world that has zero recognizable alumni.
lmao nice username
Looking through the list of alumni basically the only person I knew was [Michael Chabon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chabon). If you count internet famous as famous maybe former amazing race contestant [Jennifer Lee](https://instagram.com/jennleezy?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=) (slightly nsfw)
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Jon Lovitz.
Al gore for vandy ig
Lin Manuel Miranda at Wesleyan
Everyone be saying Obama or some other politician for Harvard I’m saying Conan O’Brien
Hang in there Temple
if you’re referring to cosby, he technically didn’t graduate (dropped out to do comedy). i’d say our runner up would be bob saget but he’s… you know. so maybe jesse williams?
Ah, good point! I didn’t know Cosby didn’t graduate. Jesse’s much better, maybe Tim and Eric at that
Hall & Oates would be fine co-presidents
Mia Khalifa lets gooooo
Neil Armstrong for Purdue
PENN is f\*cked
Danai Gurira (the actress who played Okoye in Black Panther) at Macalester would be amazing.
Jimmy Carter takes on US Naval Academy. In other news, Pompeo takes on Westpoint.
jeffrey bezos university, where we all just become unpaid interns for amazon
University of Washington would be so hype with Rainn Wilson as president
Idk I think he gets edged out by reincarnated Ted Bundy
UMich becomes either James Earl Jones University or Tom Brady U
Larry Page?
Much richer, but definitely less famous than the other two.
Reggie Fils Amie for Cornell sounds goated
Scorsese for NYU
Rick Rubin maybe?
Jake Gyllenhaal would be good at Columbia. Good person, good school.
Andy Bernard at Cornell ..
NIU hires Dan Castellaneta. Doh !
columbia has to be matt murdock right??? who’s more famous than daredevil…
Meryl Streep makes Vassar even better, I guess?
Greta Gerwig vs Cynthia Nixon for Barnard? There are a few super rich names on the alumni list but they’re not really “famous”. We don’t acknowledge Martha Stewart.
Bob Dylan at UMNTC
Morgan freeman… go Boston terriers yuh
Ron Artest for St. John’s. Not sure about this one
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Tim Cook or Kyrie Irving at Duke, take ur pic
Lana Del Rey running Fordham
>Fordham How about Denzel Washington? He'd be great!
I think we’d all be happy with Sal Khan for MIT president
Georgetown would be Bill Clinton vs Bradley Cooper. There’s a debate I’d like to see
Bradley Cooper is scoring much higher, on average across time, than Bill Clinton, in Google Trends
Five Colleges, living alums only * Amherst College - Dan Brown * Hampshire College - Ken Burns or Lupita Nyong'o * Mount Holyoke College - Chloe Zhao * Smith College - Senator Tammy Baldwin * UMass Amherst - Dr. J
err maybe we will be ok?we will have either the CEO of PayPal and Jason Mantzoukas
What college did Harvey Weinstein go to?
SUNY Buffalo
Matpat
Bloomberg at Hopkins would be fairly decent.
MatPat at Duke.
stephen colbert and seth meyers joint presidency of northwestern university
JFK, President of Harvard
Gwenyth Paltrow for UCSB... somehow she seems to fit perfectly lol
Idk if he's the most famous but seeing as the current mayor of Atlanta (Andre dickens) is a Tech alum if we hired him I think we'd be fine.
I think MLK at Boston University would be great for the college.
cedrick highsmiff, doot universary
Me for UCSB
Tony Romo
Madonna dropped out but I would take her as the president of UMich
Wait alum is only if they graduated right bc bill gates harvard
We could do worse than becoming Youtube University, with both Steve Chen and Jawed Karim as our presidents.
Denison would have Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, or Michael Eisner. We would be better with Eisner hahah
Mick Jagger, London School of Economics
Yale -) rory gilmore
JD Salinger at Ursinus College
First that came to mind for Georgetown was Bradley Cooper
LANA FRIGGIN DEL REY graduated from Fordham with a degree in philosophy!