WHERE IN THE WORLD IS DAN VAUGHN?

Tag on along as well follow FP Central Quarterback Dan Vaughn on his summer college tour

Friday, June 16:  Yale University in New Haven, CT  
Nickname: Bulldogs (It must be a Vaughn thing)
Mascot: Handsome Dan (Figures, right?)
Applied for Admissions (2016):  31,455
Accepted (2016):  1,972  (6.3%)
SAT Average:  2,265
ACT Average: 34
Annual Tuition & Fee's: $49,500 (Includes health care. Does not include Room and Board)




Saturday, June 17: Columbia University, NYC
Nick Name: Lions
Mascot: Lion
Notable Alum: Lou Gehrig (Baseball Hall of Fame), Sid Luckman (4 time NFL MVP), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (US Supreme Court), Warren Buffett (Multi-Billionaire), Robert Kraft (Owner NE Patriots), and United States Presidents Barack Obama, Theodore Roosevelt & Franklin D. Roosevelt




Sunday, June 18: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Nickname: Big Read
Mascot: Touchdown, the Bear
Acceptance Rate: 12.5%

• One of only three land granted Universities in the USA and the only one in New York
• Ranked fifth in the world for student who go on to receive their  PhD
• 31 Marshall Scholars & 28 Rhodes Scholars

Notable Alum:  Lee Teng-hui - former president Taiwan, Mario García Menocal - former  president of Cuba, Jamshid Amuzegar - former  prime minister of Iran, Stephen Friedman - Chairman of Goldman Sachs, Andrew Tish - Chairman of Lowes, James McLamore - founder of Burger King, Myra Hart - Founder of Staples, Robert Adkins - devolped the Atkins Diet, Henry Helmich - developed the Heimlch maneuver, Wislon Greatbatch, invented the pacemaker, C. Evertt Koop - Sormer Surgeon General of USA, Jon Rubinstein, created the iPod, Thomas Midgley, invented Freon, Glenn "Pop" Warner, founder of American Football.


Tuesday, June 20: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Nickname: Tigers
Mascot: Princeton Tiger
U.S. News & National Report Ranking: #1 College / University in USA

• 41 Nobel laureates
• 21 National Medal of Science winners
• 14 Fields Medalists
• 5 Abel Prize winners
• 10 Turing Award laureates
• 5 National Humanities Medal recipients
• 209 Rhodes Scholars
• 126 Marshall Scholars

Albert Einstein, though on the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study rather than at Princeton, came to be associated with the university through frequent lectures and visits on the campus.

Thursday, June 22: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Nickname: Quakers
Endowment: $10.715 Billion (5.7% increase from the prior year) Seventh largest endowment of 815 ranked colleges and universities.

• Bosts 25 billionaires, which is the most of any university in the world at the undergraduate level
• 33 US Senators
• 42 US Governors
• 14 Heads of State
• 2 US Presidents
• 158 Members of US House of Representatives
• Benjamin Franklyn was primary founder
• First US Medical School and first university teaching hospital
• Home of Wharton School of Business considered the best overall graduate business school in the world.
• First University in the world to award a PhD to an African-American woman.

Sixth most selective school in the country accepting 7.7% of applicants in the regular admissions cycle.

Sunday, June 25: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Nickname: Harvard Crimson
Mascot: John Harvard, the pilgrim
Endowment: $34.541 Billion Largest in the world. Has regained all losses from the great recession as of 2011. 

• Oldest University in the world, established in 1636
• Acceptance rate of 5.2%, second lowest in USA
• 32% of students are undergraduate while 64% are graduate students.
• Harvard Library system contains 80 branches, holding 18,000,000 volumes and is considered the largest academic library in the USA
• Ranked first in business, education and medical research for postgraduate schools by US News and World Report.
• 27% of students are international students
• The forward pass in American football was legalized in 1906 at the suggestion of Walter Camp and is considered perhaps the most significant rule change in sports history according to "The History of American Football", published in 2006.

Notable alum include former US Presidents: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklyn D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, George W. Bush, Barack Obama; Microsoft Founder Bill Gates; Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg as well as Ban Kimoon, Secretary-General of the United Nations and other world leaders.