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> any numbers on that?

Current US Supreme Court:

  Alito - Yale 
  Coney Barrett - Notre Dame
  Brown Jackson - Harvard
  Gorsuch - Harvard
  Kavanaugh - Yale
  Kagan - Harvard
  Roberts - Harvard
  Sotomayor - Yale
  Thomas - Yale
Noticing anything?


That's 9 people in one profession. A profession that specifically has restrictions on who can be a lawyer and judge. I can name people who didn't graduate from college, or graduated from non-ivy schools too. Considering technology is extremely influential in shaping out lives, you'll probably find it interesting how many of these people never even graduated from college.

https://www.developgoodhabits.com/successful-people-college/

I'm looking for actual stats.




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