<p>I mean, don't you think whoever is running our country should be "above average"? </p>
<p>I just stumbled upon this...</p>
<p>Bush/Gore</a> Grades and SAT Scores</p>
<p>Interesting.</p>
<p>Anyone know where stats like this are for THIS election's candidate's?</p>
<p>(p.s. I know grades aren't everything and blah blah blah but I thought our nation's leader would do better in college).</p>
<p>this is the high school forum, so I'll assume you're not in college.
College classes are completely different from high school. While that doesn't mean that they were amazing students, by any means, B's and C's at top universities is respectable.
Besides, I doubt that when they were in college they were planning on running to be president. They were probably enjoying their college life rather than studying all the time.</p>
<p>Einstein got dreadful grades, you know. Not that I'm comparing any of those men to Einstein or anything. Just pointing out that grades are not an accurate indicator of a person's talent, skill, or intellectual competence.</p>
<p>Yeah, I meant to put this in Cafe, but I'm always on HSL, so by habit it was posted here...</p>
<p>Anyways, I wasn't saying they weren't intelligent...Just that I would think they would have tried harder. You don't think they were thinking about running for president?? Surely that was SOMETHING they were thinking about.</p>
<p>As for Einstein, I think he was too smart for school and got bored. These guys are no Einsteins heh heh.</p>
<p>You're right Bs and Cs aren't bad...but D's are. (I didn't notice it was just ONE person who had the Ds)</p>
<p>Back to my original question: Anyone know where stats like this are for THIS election's candidate's? (Obama, Kucinich, Clinton, etc.)</p>
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<p>sure, they may have had dreams of one day being president, but you can't even run until you're 35. very few 21 year olds think about how what they're doing right now will affect them in 14 years.
Decisions for them were probably very similiar to a common college student.
study for this test... or party tonight. hmm, a B doesn't sound too bad. </p>
<p>While they're not the best of the best of the best, they were in college. and they got decent grades.</p>
<p>How do you get a 566?</p>
<p>And hahah at the D in natural sciences for Gore. Guess he picked it up when the natural word started melting, huh?</p>
<p>^ lol. Einstein was actually rather bored at school, thus the tediousness was the main factor for his poor grades I believe, besides math and science of course.</p>
<p>okay.....</p>
<p>if a rich white male w/ a 566 Cr SAT can get into Yale....A poor black male w/ a 720 Cr SAt (AKA "me") better be able to get into Harvard.</p>
<p>you'llsee...I think it depends on more than that.</p>
<p>Money.....</p>
<p>doesnt mean anything. they're still brilliant individuals.</p>
<p>Haha bush = brillant individual, I think not!</p>
<p>Bush not only rand the treasury into the ground, he ran two OIL companies into the ground. How the hell do you run not one, but TWO oil companies into the ground in oil-addicted America? In the era of cheap oil, no less. I bet he left with a golden parachute. Harvard Business School should rescind his MBA.</p>
<p>Thank god he didn't go to Harvard Law, otherwise I'd be too embarrassed to go to Harvard Law. Oh wait, Kerry went to Harvard Law. Guess it's time to find another law school.</p>
<p>"How the hell do you run not one, but TWO oil companies into the ground in oil-addicted America?"</p>
<p>if you're one very, very stupid individual.</p>
<p>Um, I'm pretty sure the scoring system for the SAT has changed at least once.</p>
<p>Shravas makes a significant point. SAT scores and grades have been inflated since these guys went to college. Not going to debate their grades -- but their SATs (especially Gore's) would have been considered very good.</p>
<p>BUSH BRILLIANT?!?!!? o_O</p>
<p>hahahahhahahahahahhaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha</p>
<p>yeah, And Einstein was a complete idiot, Galileo was a moron, and Newton was an utter dummy.</p>
<p>Who said Bush was brilliant?</p>
<p>I heard Ben Bernanke, the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve, got a 1590 on the SAT around the SAT at around that time. He went on to graduate summa cum laude from Harvard.</p>