<p>after 4 years of people carping about bush, here it is:</p>
<p>How Did An Idiot Like Bush Become President ?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!</p>
<p>It was much easier to get into, well, all colleges back then. I believe at that time they still admitted a majority of applicants, especially if you were well off, WASP, male and from New England.</p>
<p>Hm, well I don't know--how did Bush JR. get in? I mean, Kerry comes off as rather urbane, while Bush is a babbling imbassal, whose hook constituted his father's presidential prestige and money aimed at bribary.</p>
<p>IvyLeague: One word: legacy</p>
<p>Here's more grist for the mill. </p>
<p>"In his sophomore year at Harvard, [Al Gore's] grades were lower than any semester recorded on Bush's transcript from Yale. That was the year Gore's classmates remember him spending a notable amount of time in the Dunster House basement lounge shooting pool, watching television, eating hamburgers and occasionally smoking marijuana. His grades temporarily reflected his mildly experimental mood, and alarmed his parents. He received one D, one C-minus, two C's, two C-pluses and one B-minus, an effort that placed him in the lower fifth of the class for the second year in a row. </p>
<p>For all of Gore's later fascination with science and technology, he often struggled academically in those subjects. The political champion of the natural world received that sophomore D in Natural Sciences 6 (Man's Place in Nature) and then got a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118 his senior year. The self-proclaimed inventor of the Internet avoided all courses in mathematics and logic throughout college, despite his outstanding score on the math portion of the SAT. As was the case with many of his classmates, his high school math grades had dropped from A's to C's as he advanced from trigonometry to calculus in his senior year. "</p>
<p>"[John F. Kennedy] ...was an average student at Harvard, never earning an A, but mostly B's and C's, with a single D in a sophomore history course. "</p>
<p>"[Ted Kennedy] was suspended from Harvard in May 1951 after he arranged for another student to take a final examination in a Spanish class in his place. "</p>
<p>"Five years out of high school, [Dick Cheney] was floundering. He'd flunked out of Yale -- not once, but twice."</p>
<p>Twice, huh? Now that's impressive. I thought that flunking out of Yale was harder than graduating - even more so back then - but twice? Now that takes some real doing.</p>
<p>True, Dick Cheney was extremely lazy, but at least he didn't cheat the way that Ted Kennedy. I think if anybody truly deserves to be thrown out of school, it's somebody who cheats on his exams.</p>
<p>Ivyleagueorbust, it is imbecile, you imbassal. Just Kidding : ) Maybe if all our smart highschool kids go off and make bad grades and bad decisions, they can all become the next generation of politicians!</p>
<p>C students, cheaters, and flunkies vying to rule the world ... Go figure. The major parties can't give us better than this? Maybe the smart ones are too smart to run for office. Sounds like what I've heard about baby sharks (Law School Grads) ... "The A students make the professors, the B students make the judges, and the C students make the money."</p>
<p>"Hm, well I don't know--how did Bush JR. get in? I mean, Kerry comes off as rather urbane, while Bush is a babbling imbassal, whose hook constituted his father's presidential prestige and money aimed at bribary."</p>
<p>Imbassal? Bribary? Sort of ironic, considering the message of your post.</p>
<p>Bush and Kerry both had much less competition -no women and few international students. Actually, there were few students from outside the northeast at that time.</p>
<p>I have lost all faith in the so-called "historic" prestige of the Ivy League.</p>
<p>Don' say that. Our Harvard ambassador, Byerly, will send you to Yale as your capital punishment. LOL.</p>
<p>Kerry actually had a good SAT, unlike Bush.</p>
<p>Al Gore just gave the commencement undergraduate address at none other than....Johns Hopkins University.
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Gore received an honorary doctorate recognizing him as a distinguished public servant and a longtime friend of Johns Hopkins.
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<a href="http://www.jhu.edu/gazette/2005/31may05/31perfec.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.jhu.edu/gazette/2005/31may05/31perfec.html</a>
The commencement pics are cool..some guy has a water gun..and someone else is dressed up as an ape! lol</p>
<p>Bush and Kerry went to two of the most ultra elite prep schools in the country, which at the time sent almost all graduates to ivies. Both schools still send over 30% of grads to ivies.</p>
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Kerry actually had a good SAT, unlike Bush.
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<p>Yeah, since we all know how the SAT measures intelligence.</p>
<p>Let us not forget about the impact of grade inflation.</p>
<p>Kerry did worse on the SAT than Bush did. Gore did better than both of them.</p>
<p>uc_benz, the SAT does measure intelligence. At least to some reliable degree. It was created by the ETS with the intent that it be an intelligence test and although they contintue to deny it to students and parents today, they still design it with that in mind. That's why colleges first started using it. No matter what the CB or their parent company (I think that's how it's organized) ETS says about it, you cannot ignore the statistical correlation between the SAT and IQ. I'm not sure how the New SAT will affect that correlation, but you can still just look at the original portion.</p>
<p>Ted Kennedy is just a slimy bastard and that's all there is to say really. If a Republican had cheated in college to that extent (having someone else take a final) he would never get elected. But what else can you expect from a party that managed to elect a former klansman.</p>
<p>I would be the most rocking President of all time...</p>