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<p>Come on. You know that doesn’t mean much, particularly when you’re talking about a school like Princeton, for I think we can all agree that by far, the hardest part of graduating from Princeton is simply getting admitted in the first place. Once you’re in, it’s practically impossible to actually flunk out. As long as you do the bare minimum of work, you’re going to graduate. Granted, it’s hard to get top grades, but it’s not very hard at all to simply graduate. </p>
<p>Look, I’ll put it to you this way. I think we can agree that Princeton and Yale are fairly similar schools when it comes to rigor and student culture. Yet the fact is, both George Bush and John Kerry both managed to graduate from Yale, even though both have freely admitted to being highly irresponsible and unmotivated college students. Bush has freely admitted that he was just a drunk frat-boy ne’er-do-well back in those days. John Kerry admitted that he was far more interested in learning how to fly planes than he was in his studies, and he even said “I always told my Dad that D stood for Distinction.” Yet the fact is, even those guys still managed to pass and graduate. Granted, they both got mediocre grades. But they still graduated. Furthermore, this was during the days before the Vietnam-War-era college grade inflation trends that have made it even easier to graduate. </p>
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<p>The truth is, at schools like HYPS, you don’t need to have good time management skills in order to just graduate. In fact, you can be completely immature and lazy and still graduate. You do need strong time management skills and maturity if you actually want to do well. But to simply graduate? That’s not that hard, as Bush and Kerry both proved via their youthful immaturity and lack of motivation.</p>