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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure, but I think this is the kid that ivies want. They want Barrack Obama at 16-years-old, not a lot of SAT tutoring or curating, with an organically developed passion for community activism. Only they would've wanted him with a 4.0. Not sure what his actual GPA was at the time but pretty sure it wasn't a 4.0.[/quote]

Obama went to THE most elite private high in Hawaii.  They don’t give out As easily, I am pretty sure he didn’t have 4.0.  Most likely no one at his school had 4.0.

I don’t think he was a community activist back in high school. He was raised by his white grandparents.

And college admissions were much much easier at his time.  Just different times.[/quote]

He also didn’t get into an Ivy. I do think if he’d had the 4.0 and the community activism, he would’ve been exactly what Princeton was looking for. Today’s ivies want kids that will become adults who bring them glory. They try to poke through the curation to the authenticity, because future leaders probably do have inner drives that go beyond resume building. If they had a crystal ball that told them the marijuana smoking 3.7 kid from Hawaii would one day be president, they would use that ball every time.

These colleges are not aligned with parents, who want kids to be safe, secure, comfortable and in the right networks and social circles.[/quote]

Obama went to Occidental then transfer to Columbia so I consider he being in an ivy (but not Trump).
3.7 or not, those elite high school is highly selective at first place, to get in and to survive for four years.  I have no doubt about his aptitude. 
Harris is another example, a great future leader who didn't get in ivies.
Anyway, I don't think Ivies are particularly good at screening for future leaders.  People are reading too much into it.[/quote]

Harris was also a one-time faculty kid at Berkeley and Stanford and they still didn't take her. I do think she is of above-average intelligence - passing the CA on your second try is still an accomplishment.
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The one having intelligence problem is someone who paid a proxy to take the SAT for him.  This board so insists that SAT can be prepped.  Fine, he couldn't even be prepped and had to find a proxy.[/quote]

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