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<p>Uh, not to make an overly political statement, but seems to me that the current President - a Yale and Harvard graduate - went pretty darn far. </p>
<p>To be fair, let me point out that his election opponents, Gore and Kerry, weren’t exactly the most brilliant of students either. For example, Al Gore was a mediocre high school student who graduated only 25th out of a high school class of 51, hence barely within the top 50% of his class, yet got into Harvard anyway because his father was a powerful Senator. His mediocrity continued at Harvard, with his sophomore year in particular being worse than any of Bush’s semesters at Yale. Similarly, John Kerry, who went to Yale, actually ended up with a worse college GPA than Bush did. </p>
<p>[Gore’s</a> Grades Belie Image of Studiousness (washingtonpost.com)](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A37397-2000Mar18]Gore’s”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A37397-2000Mar18)</p>
<p>[Yale</a> grades portray Kerry as a lackluster student - The Boston Globe](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/06/07/yale_grades_portray_kerry_as_a_lackluster_student?mode=PF]Yale”>http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/06/07/yale_grades_portray_kerry_as_a_lackluster_student?mode=PF)</p>
<p>Yet all 3 of these chaps seemed to do very well for themselves later in life despite their mediocre academic performances.</p>