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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually had pretty much the same trajectory as Vance - I grew up really poor, single mom, kind of crazy household. I joined the Army right out of high school, spent 4 years in, got out, went to college, then a great graduate program - and a crummy government job. The only difference was I didn't go to law school so I think Vance, at least there, was smarter than me. I'm just shocked at how right wing he has become because I thought he'd land on the side of helping the poor rather than screwing the poor. [/quote]

Pretty big difference that he went to Yale law school, not just law school.[/quote]

That is interesting too. He went to Yale law school from Ohio state?  How did he manage that? Was he a star at Ohio — his stories seemed to be mostly about being drunk? Did he just kill it on the LSAT?[/quote]

He finished in two years.

This is a good lesson for kids from poor backgrounds: go to your local state school and knock it out of the park. It will be very easy for a bright kid, and all the really brilliant kids have headed off to the Ivy and private schools. If you go directly to an elite schools you will be competing with students who have attended elite private school (50% of students at Ivy went to private school, yet 10% of students nationwide attend private), and the Stuy, TJ, etc college level courses at elite public high schools.   I’m sure his high school experience was probably the equivalent to a good FCPS middle school. [/quote]

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