Did Bush go to Law School?

[coloradodem2005]

I thought that he didn't get accepted to Law School. Here, I have heard that he went and flunked out. When did he do this? Why didn't daddy buy him a Law degree like he bought him an MBA?

[LynneSin]

1. He only has an MBA

I'm not sure if this has been 100% validated, but rumor has it Bush applied to University of Texas Law School and they didn't accept him

[Lex]

2. Daddy apparently couldn't buy him into law school,

.
even in Texas.

Rejected by everyone.

I'd hate to see his LSAT score. Probably laughable.

Daddy got him into Biz School on a "legacy" didn't he? Which meant they waived the requirements or something.

[Solly Mack]

7. No LSAT scores but here's his college transcript

[greenbriar]

9. Man,,,I got a 3.86

on my bach degree


heck, I graduated Magna Cum Laude

maybe I ought to run for President

[Virginian]

12. Didn't you have to take more than one year of English?

He didn't.

[skooooo]

19. wow..really mediocre student...

71 in Political Science..

[Toots]

23. A 76 in English is pretty hard to believe IMHO

I think he bought his diploma from a diploma mill.

[Solly Mack]

24. I felt it strangely high as well

[Jack Rabbit]

3. No

He applied to the Harvard Business School, from which his family purchased an MBA for him.

[Zen Democrat]

6. He couldn't get into the University of Texas UNDERGRADUATE

He couldn't get into St. John's prep in HOUSTON.

He went to Exeter and Yale as a legacy (affirmative action) and daddy bought him a Harvard MBA.

Anybody ever read the article written by his business school professor? Says W argued against Social Security, Medicare and every other social program - says he had no heart.

[Zen Democrat]

8. Link to Harvard professor's opinion of *

http://www.glocom.org/opinions/essays/20040301_tsurumi_president/



At Harvard Business School, thirty years ago, George Bush was a student of mine. I still vividly remember him. In my class, he declared that "people are poor because they are lazy." He was opposed to labor unions, social security, environmental protection, Medicare, and public schools. To him, the antitrust watch dog, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities Exchange Commission were unnecessary hindrances to "free market competition." To him, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was "socialism." Recently, President Bush's Federal Appeals Court Nominee, California's Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown, repeated the same broadside at her Senate hearing. She knew that her pronouncement would please President Bush and Karl Rove and their Senators. President Bush and his brain, Karl Rove, are leading a radical revolution of destroying all the democratic political, social, judiciary, and economic institutions that both Democrats and moderate Republicans had built together since Roosevelt's New Deal.

[Fusions_Minion]

13. Better than he dreamed

Why get rid of the SEC when you can appoint a fellow bonesman as the head.

[Yupster]

22. I hope none of my professors

ever repeat stuff I said in college.

Are they even allowed to do that? Seems unethical to me.

[dweller]

4. HAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!.....

good one....

oops, you were serious?
dp

[madrchsod]

5. he was a c student

the only reason he stayed in college is his dads money and power otherwise he would been in a jr college....

[BrotherBuzz]

10. No, his butt would have been drafted!

and the Big Green Machine would have sent him to Vietnam.

[Disturbed]

11. War Criminals

"President Bush and his brain, Karl Rove, are leading a radical revolution of destroying all the democratic political, social, judiciary, and economic institutions that both Democrats and moderate Republicans had built together since Roosevelt's New Deal."

I believe that GW Bush and his cabal are Enemies of the State, the USA and War Criminals.

[BrotherBuzz]

15. Well, you get no argument from me, but

I still think Bush* would have failed junior college if he had to do it on his own merit, and would have been drafted.

[NewJeffCT]

18. and, from what I heard...

those were Gentleman's Cs, and not legitimate Cs.

[testing123]

14. Does ICS offer the course?

Thats about the only way that he could have passed any tests. He would have hired someone else to do the homework and studying if it was through ICS.

[Bridget Burke]

16. No, he didn't.

He was refused entry to the University of Texas Law School. At that time, I guess his father's position didn't override his LSAT scores.

I read this in Molly Ivins' "Shrub". Just checked but the book doesn't have an index! However, I may end up re-reading it; will check back.

[fujiyama]

17. As far as I know

he went only to B-School, where he left such a poor impression on the professors that one remembers him actually throwing spitballs in a professional program! A professor also said that his views were intellectually lazy -- he believed that those that are poor are because they are lazy, and that FDR instituted socialist programs.

I also heard that he couldn't get into the UT Law School, but I guess his dad was able to buy him a seat at Harvard B School. Not that it mattered, he was still a business failure.

[thecrow]

20. I heard someone say that law school

has an entrance exam that requires a lot of READING....
She (who is a lawyer) supposes that is why he didn't qualify.

[Gothmog]

21. Bush rejected by UT Law and by St. John's School in Houston

Bush applied for and was rejected by UT law school.

Before that Bush applied to St. John's High School in Houston and was rejected. My older two kids go to St. John's and it is a very tough school academically. This year's senior class set a record with 78% of the class qualifying as National Merit Semi-Finalists or National Merit Commended Students.

The deans of admissions from several schools attended a college admissions event at St. John's. The dean of admissions from Yale was asked at this event if she knew about Bush being rejected by St. John's and she was kind of embarrassed about the topic. The dean of admissions did state that legacies are not given as much weigh now days at Yale as in years past. My son and I took this statement to be an indirect slam at Bush.

[PsN2Wind]

25. Completing law school would not have made him a lawyer anyway

You still have to pass the bar. I believe it is pretty well documented that at that time in W's life, he was unable to pass a bar.