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[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]

Obama started at Occidental, which likely had close to 100% admit rate in the 1980s.

He then transferred to Columbia, which had a 65% admit rate for freshmen in the 1980s - so the transfer smit rate must have been much higher. Few kids wanted to go to Columbia when the neighborhood was such a mess.

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Occidental could be by choice.

His sat score was around 1400.  In 70’s that was a pretty high score, probably similar to 1550 nowadays.  [/quote]

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