Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School

New York · 71 alumni prominent enough for Wikipedia. Tables below need at least 3 people before a trait can appear.

All of history equally The last decade or two Recent decades The last half-century

The era pills change the weighting: "recent decades" (the default) counts someone who graduated around 2010 far more than someone from 1940.

Prominent alumni

Herman Melville b. 1819	Murray Gell-Mann b. 1929	Sarah Michelle Gellar b. 1977
Rainer Weiss b. 1932	Ally Sheedy b. 1962	Barron Trump b. 2006
Hans Niemann b. 2003	Ben Schnetzer b. 1990	Rufus King b. 1755
Lorenz Hart b. 1895	Felix Adler b. 1851	Benny Safdie b. 1986

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
writer	25.4%	18
university professor	9.9%	7
businessperson	8.5%	6
film producer	8.5%	6
politician	8.5%	6
lawyer	8.5%	6
screenwriter	7.0%	5
film director	7.0%	5
actor	7.0%	5
journalist	7.0%	5
film actor	5.6%	4
musician	5.6%	4
diplomat	5.6%	4
art collector	5.6%	4
composer	5.6%	4

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this occupation as noted high-school alumni nationally.

Occupation	× the national rate	People
art collector	19.0×	4
literary critic	18.5×	3
physicist	7.4×	3
diplomat	6.9×	4
author	5.0×	3
writer	3.7×	18
university professor	3.5×	7
director	3.1×	3
judge	2.9×	3
businessperson	2.8×	6
film producer	2.7×	6
film director	2.1×	5
lawyer	1.8×	6
composer	1.7×	4
screenwriter	1.7×	5

Employers

Most common

Employer	% of its alumni	People
Columbia University	7.0%	5
University of Chicago	4.2%	3

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this employer as noted high-school alumni nationally.

Employer	× the national rate	People
Columbia University	18.8×	5
University of Chicago	16.7×	3

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Fellow of the American Physical Society	4.2%	3
Guggenheim Fellowship	4.2%	3

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this award as noted high-school alumni nationally.

Award	× the national rate	People
Fellow of the American Physical Society	19.2×	3
Guggenheim Fellowship	2.6×	3

Notes for the methodologically curious. Shares and multiples use recency weighting (people who came of age recently count more, per the era pills) and shrinkage: each school gets 20 virtual alumni at national rates, so a school with 4 noted alumni can't post a 200× multiple. High-school data on Wikidata is far sparser than college data — a missing trait usually means Wikipedia editors didn't record it, not that no alumnus has it.