One thing in its favor is that it was only 75 miles from his home. Allegheny College was founded as a Methodist college and was still affiliated with the Methodist Church at that time. McKinley was a staunch Methodist and was a student at the Methodist affiliated Poland Seminary when he applied to go to Allegheny. I suspect that some of his teachers at Poland had ties with Allegheny and so influenced him to go there or could help to get him admitted. McKinley's mother was also a strong Methodist and was no doubt happy to send him to a Methodist college. She had had hopes that he would enter the ministry.
He enrolled in September 1860 and was forced to drop out in winter 1860-1861. (Source: Hamilton, Richard F, "President McKinley, war, and empire, Vol. 2," Transaction Publishers: New Jersey, 2006, p. 43 [Google Books])
The Glee students attend William McKinley High School.
He went to the Poland Seminary, a private prep school in Poland, Ohio.
William Butler Yeats attended the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin, but he did not attend college in the traditional sense.
George Washington did not attend the College of William and Mary, but he did receive his surveyor's license from the College of William and Mary in 1749. He later served as the first American Chancellor of the College of William and Mary from 1788 to 1799.
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West Point.
Hobard and William Smith Colleges
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George Washington never attended college. He received his surveyor's certificate from The College of William & Mary in Virginia.
Bill Clinton went to Yale Law School, Georgetown University, and Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Benjamin Franklin didn't attend college...(or is it collage nya?) The educational background of the Founding Fathers was diverse. Some, like Franklin, were largely self-taught and had received scant formal training. Others had obtained instruction from private tutors or at academies. About half of the individuals had at tended or graduated from college in the British North American colonies or abroad. Some men held advanced and honorary degrees. For the most part, the delegates were a well-educated group.