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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG.  No one who reads Michelle Obama's senior thesis can reasonably come away without thinking she deserved to attend an Ivy.   I had no idea it was that bad on virtually every level.

Yes, an Asian or Jewish student with higher SATs and a demonstrated ability to compose an English sentence was more deserving of her place at Princeton.  [/quote]

Nor, for that matter, do I.   But, then, I didn't.

Should be "No one who reads Michelle Obama's senior thesis can reasonably come away without thinking she did not deserve to attend an Ivy."  [/quote]And no one who reviews George W. Bush's academic record can reasonably come away without thinking he did not deserve to attend an Ivy.[/quote]

At least we know that Bush cracked 1200 on his SATs, which made him a viable legacy candidate for Yale back in the 1960s.  Michelle Robinson applied to Princeton roughly 20 years later, when admissions were more competitive, but the poor quality of her thesis suggests that she neither belonged at an Ivy nor benefited from an Ivy education.  I mean, you can find her senior thesis on-line and read it.   It's an exercise in poorly written navel-gazing, not scholarship.  A more qualified Asian student surely would have come up with something more impressive. [/quote]No matter how you try and whitewash it, Bush was not a viable candidate in comparison to others who were better equipped academically.  His father's connection and deep pockets certainly were the major in getting him admitted.  You can try and color it all you want but that's the fact.  Bush's credentials shouldn't admitted him yesteryear or today.  As a matter of fact, Bush has said often he was proud of being a 'C' student.[/quote]

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