<p>So if we apply hmom's recentering to Bush's scores he got: 666 Verbal and 740 math and taking a average of the prior two a 703 on writing. Which means Bush's scores recentered for modern day would be a 2109, alot better than many of the condescending pricks on here who bash him.</p>
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"In addition, in my experience AA has given minorities a HUGE sense of entitlement that makes me angry. Everyone that gets in to a school at MIT deserves to go there, DO NOT assume that you worked 10 times harder than anyone who got in there regardless of where you came from."
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<p>Well your experiences would be wrong, minorities do not have a sense of entitlement. Go onto the African American students subsection and check out the actual results thread, many minorities on there are qualified students bitting there nails hoping to get accepted just like everyone else. If anything AA IMO has just functioned as an outlet for ORM and whites to complain when they don't get accepted, and then post racist things and lash out at the minorities who literally had no hand in formulating Affirmative action. If the people on here were so adverse to affirmative action then they should protest the schools who choose to use it, rather than constantly post repeated threads about how "unfair" the process is.
Oh and minorities do have to work alot harder than other students. I don't know what race you are, but since we are in America I will assume you are white. You do not know what it is like to be a minority in america, you don't know the constant social prejudice that pervades ppl's opinion and adversely affects minorities simply on the basis of thier skin color. This prejudice applies to hiring policies as well, in fact there was a study that whites and asians who attend elite schools make about the same as whites and asians who get accepted to top schools but choose not to go. In contrast minorities in the same situation made significantly less, why? Because when a minority goes to a job interview ppl are naturally disposed to be against them and they are less likely to get a job, but with Ivy credentials the inherent bias of interviewers and employers is alleviated.</p>
<p>P.S. The pickens plan sucks, how are cars going to be revamped for natural gas in any pragmatic way for the near future.</p>
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<p>George W Bush got into Yale with a 566 Verbal and 640 math. But then, he had a pretty amazing hook, which also let him to be governor of TX... I'm so pi55ed off at him..."
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<p>I hate how cocky little teenagers insult ppl and in doing so directly display ignorance. Bushes SAT score of 1206 without recentering corresponds to an IQ of 125 which is higher than 95% of the population. And with recentering is a 1406 which is an IQ of 141 which is higher than 99.5% of the population. </p>
<p>SAT</a> I to IQ Estimator</p>
<p>Really the concept that Bush is dumb is born only because he is a poor public speaker, and really speaking ability is not indictative of intelligence, I am sure there are brillant people who are poor speakers.</p>
<p>I want to hear more stories :D</p>