How exactly did Barack Obama get into Harvard? This article takes up the question

[GameOn]

http://dayriffer.com/category/28/l/2056/looks-like-trump-s-right-how-the-hell-em-did-em-this-president-get-into-those-ivy-league-schools


LOL

[housewolf]

1. Oh that's funny!

It had me going down to the part about Skull & Bones

:rofl:

[itsrobert]

2. that's about Bush getting into Yale

nice try.

[Kber]

3. Yes it is.

That's the point.

[louis-t]

4. Had me up to the Christmas wreath.

Funny. Also true.

[opihimoimoi]

5. HOW??? He earned it.....

[mimitabby]

6. bad article.

it can be taken out of context very easily

[Ian David]

7. I believe he took Mass. Ave over The Charles. n/t

[morningglory]

8. I graduated high school in 1964 with honors.

I am a white female. Schools were not integrated here in the South back then. I was not accepted into FSU because they had a limit on girls. They wanted to accept into every class 50% boys, a quota, as it were on white boys. Therefore they only accepted the tippy top creme de la creme girls, the ones who would roll in the floor screaming if they ever saw an A- or a B+ on a report card, and a few thousand average-grades type boys (who, I imagine knew how to have a good time). I had to go to the Junior college for 2 years, get an AA degree, and bide my time till a few thousand boys flunked out. I am glad this happened to me, because I had great faculty at the JC, learned a lot. I was never in even one big class with 1,000 students enrolled (with a graduate student teacher). When I got to FSU in my junior year, I was in my major courses, had great teachers and bonded with the other Anthropology majors, boys and girls, all fun people to me. I realized if there were no quota, I would have had the fantastic experience, of going to a university with 80,000 boring "brainy" girls and 200 of the brainiest boys on the planet who could matriculate with those homework-obsessed girls. I think affirmative action is a very good thing. Just wanted to let you know about the old affirmative action we had in the good old days, in case you were wondering.

[morningglory]

9. Oh, yes I scored 1000 on the SAT: 900 in Lit/Humanities and

100 in math. I really don't remember my scores, but this is a close representation. That is why I was not the creme de la creme brainy girl some others were.

[karynnj]

10. But you managed to get 900 of the 800 points in Verbal

:)

[morningglory]

11. Hey! respect your elders! I said I don't really remember the

numbers. I will be 65yo in a few weeks.

[karynnj]

12. Only a little bit my elder - I will be 61 next month.

I majored in Math/econ and always thought the scores were unfair to many people who were far better at verbal things. For most of us more on the math side, if we read a lot - which I did - we scored nearly as high on the verbal score.