PayScale is basing its median income data for Colgate grads with 10+ years of experience off of 16 observations. There are likely only one or two observations going into the Colgate Social Science salary in the article.
In addition, only 25% of Colgate grads go into business-related fields after graduation and the number of those going into high-profile management consulting or investment banking is likely under 100 people a year. The number of people making huge piles of money in general is very small and isn't as correlated with education as people tend to think. Hacker News has a wildly skewed view of this and dishonest "statistics" like these generally go unexamined.
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/School=Colgate_Universit...
In addition, only 25% of Colgate grads go into business-related fields after graduation and the number of those going into high-profile management consulting or investment banking is likely under 100 people a year. The number of people making huge piles of money in general is very small and isn't as correlated with education as people tend to think. Hacker News has a wildly skewed view of this and dishonest "statistics" like these generally go unexamined.