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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haven't we learned yet that people can be quite successful without top SATs?
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Some people can be. In aggregate, high SAT people are more successful and low SAT people are less successful. On average and especially on the margins.

[b]Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, high SAT, high LSAT. Successful presidents. [/b]

Joe Biden, low SAT, low LSAT. Unsuccessful president.[/quote]

We don't know their LSAT scotes but I was at Harvard with Obama and can tell you he made law review by write-on + racial preference. He was elected to editor in chief by that law review so the could say they elected the first black editor in chief. Getting on law review by write-on then was considered a second class citizen. That and presumably his less than stellar academic record (he didn't make it on grades like the half that did) explains why he didn't clerk but became a "community organizer". There were articles in the NYT and WSJ about this back then. He was not impressive as a student.[/quote]

Sure you were.[/quote]

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