BC On My Mind - Jesuits Take Over Congress

I really enjoyed reading this Boston.com post on "New Congress 9 percent Jesuit-educated".

According to stats quoted within it:

• 50 (really 51) members of the 111th Congress are Jesuit-educated
• Georgetown has the most graduates at 18
• But Boston College follows closely behind at 6 graduates (really 7 ) and Holy Cross has 4
• The BC grads, surprisingly, are all Democrats and include
• Senator John F. Kerry (JD 1976)
• Representative Michael Capuano (JD 1977)
• Representative William D. Delahunt (JD 1967)
• Representative Edward J. Markey (BA 1968; JD 1972)
• Representative Paul W. Hodes of New Hampshire (JD 1978)
• Representative Robert C. Scott of Virginia (JD 1973)
• For some reason, Representative Stephen F. Lynch (JD 1991) was left off the original list but he counts as the 7th.

As a BC grad myself, I'm also (duh) Jesuit-educated but no, I don't have aspirations for Congress.

And the funny thing is, I hadn't even heard of Jesuits until I arrived on BC's campus freshman year. I remember reading that BC had the largest Jesuit population in the world in one of the brochures that was sent to me as a prospective student and wondering what a Jesuit was. So that fact definitely wasn't a deciding factor for me to attend!